I was looking on the stats for this forum -- there are participation stats for back to 2010. The high year in number of posts was 2012 with 8,124 posts for all hockey/age levels. In 2019 there were 2,031. As late as 2017 there were 5,447. In 2022, there were 134 total posts -- for ALL age levels and ALL topics. I doubt it has anything to do with "junior isn't going to make the NHL." Seems like people are just not feeling it.