Hey guys, can you feel that underwhelming sense of skeptical excitement in the air? Yes, that’s right: the NHL lock-out is (almost certainly) over.

In case you didn’t catch it yesterday, the 2004-2005 hockey season was officially cancelled, making the NHL the first major professional sport in North America to give up an entire season due to labor negotiations. Most fans aren’t surprised, we saw the writing on the wall long ago. Basically the dispute boils down to the salary cap. In the most recent round of negotiations this month, the “cap gap” came down to a $6.5 million…