If you could write a lockout letter to your favorite team's owner, what would it be?

Depending on how you read it, Forbes' latest NHL franchise valuations argue for lower player salaries -- or higher owner revenue sharing.

After dragging fans through the last lockout in 2004-05, the NHL had an advertising agency draft an uplifting new mission statement to be framed and displayed throughout the league. Naturally, it couldn't heed it.

Having won the previous NHL labor battle, could Gary Bettman be repeating Bob Goodenow's hubris mistake?

As an abused hockey fan, I'll still follow my favorite NHL team, but I no longer love this league.

Even for New York Islanders fans who embrace Brooklyn as a new beginning, this week's news raise the question of how we'll say goodbye to a beloved old venue.

The Islanders were the NHL's last true dynasty. Now, with the team moving to Brooklyn in 2015, its crystal clear that Nassau County itself did more damage to the dynasty than any other team ever could.

As far as franchise relocation goes, the New York Islanders' move to Brooklyn is the best that one can hope for.

Getting arena resolution is a reward for all of the New York Islanders fans who suffered through uncertainty and the leanest of lean years.

Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum is known as one of the worst venues in North American pro sports. That doesn't mean New York Islanders fans don't have good reason to love it.