Hockey and the business world have been intertwined for basically as long as both have existed. And ever since Canada's biggest movers and shakers of various industries have become involved in the ownership groups of the Canadian National Hockey League teams, its meant that the business of business is almost as important as the business of hockey.
In a lot of ways, the introduction of the salary cap has diminished the amount that exchange rates and commodity prices can impact any individual club's operations, but for a few reasons, you might want to keep an eye on the recovery of oil prices (and the Canada/U.