Dahl spent the next 3 seasons with the Flames, scoring a career high 12 points during the lockout shortened 1994-1995 season.

New coach Butch Carter was also credited with much of the team's turnaround during the lockout shortened 1998-99 season.

At the beginning of the lockout shortened 2012-13 season, starting goaltender Mike Smith suffered a lower body injury.

On the other hand, dormancy can be triggered after a normal growing season by decreasing temperatures, shortened day length, and/or a reduction in rainfall.

He made the post-season for the second time in his career following the strike shortened 1981 season.

The rainy season shortens farther south, lasting only from January to May at Guayaquil.

But he would be injured again during the strike shortened 1999 season, playing 38 games.

Ice ages might come and go, rainy seasons might shorten or lengthen.

For the same reason, fruit that ripens in a dry sunny autumn will often keep longest, whereas a wet season may shorten their storage life.

McGraw went 2-4 with a 2.66 ERA and ten saves in the strike shortened 1981 season.