NHL Lockout Unnoticed?

The NHL has been in a lockout for the past several months, and it its finally over, but what I find interesting is that no one has really been talking about it. I think its interesting how little it's been in the news and how few people know about it. The only people who have really noticed are hockey fans. Most people who aren't into hockey had no idea that the NHL was in a lockout.

I definitely would have thought that it would have been in the news more, but I guess with all of the major political events and tragedies going on, that not much attention was put on it. I'm sure that some NHL fans were very upset by the lockout though, and that is why I am a little confused as to why more attention wasn't put on the lockout. I think if the lockout was in the news more, there may have been even more of an outcry from fans, and it could have been resolved sooner.

Why do you think the Lockout wasn't shown much in the news? Would more coverage of the lockout have helped it get resolved sooner?