Updated: Jun 29, 2006, 9:04 AM

Vote: Has the NHL won you back?


Cam Ward
Smaller pads didn't stop Carolina's Cam Ward.
The Stanley Cup is spending time in North Carolina and Erik Johnson is headed to St. Louis as the top pick in the draft as the NHL enters an offseason sure to be full of trades and free-agent movement.

It's all a refreshing blast of scheduling normalcy for fans who just 12 months ago were coming off a year with no hockey. But with the first season of the "new" NHL now in the books, where does the league stand with you, SportsNation?

Were you more likely to tune in with new rules, and stricter enforcement of old rules, opening up the game on the ice? Were you even able to find games on air when you wanted to tune in?

ESPN's NHL experts are offering up their take on the success of the league's relaunch, but we want to know what you think.

  • 1) How would you have described your interest level in the NHL before the lockout?
  • 2) How would you describe your interest level in the NHL now?
  • 3) With the new rules, have you watched the ''new'' NHL more than before the lockout?
  • 4) How do shootouts effect your interest in the game?
  • 5) Do you think the NHL needs to do a better job of marketing its players?
  • 6) Who, out of some of this past season's rookies, is the new face of the NHL?
  • 7) How would you rate the overall TV coverage of the NHL this season?
  • 8) Do you believe that dynasties like those of the 1980s Oilers and Islanders will become extinct in the NHL?
  • 9) Would it be good or bad for the game if they became extinct?
  • 10) How would you rate the NHL's drug-testing policy?

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