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Fans are aggrieved, and it's the job of each franchise to keep their relationships with these would-be customers warm. That's what the Lightning did today.

Bleakness is the immediate future of the NHL, and some parties are early to encorce the mutual contempt spawlned by the forthcoming lockout.

While the world of hockey has ended it's summer hibernation, the NHL labor front remains unsettled. One Lightning prospect is down and out, another is tied to the KHL for the next two years, a year since the trage Texas Hold'em wit Vincent Lecavalier

NHL ownership made a fresh offer to the Players Association on Tuesday. It's movement, it's a dialogue but is it progress?

The NHLPA is trying to prevent being locked out and NHL fans are upset and feeling powerless about it. But maybe both groups can help each other out.