It’s a good thing federal mediators aren’t seeking to determine right and wrong in the NHL lockout. According to Aubrey Kent of Temple's School of Tourism and Hospitality Management, both sides have a valid claim that they are in the right. “Players feel as though they’re being bullied,” he said. “Owners feel from a dollar-value perspective that the next seven years they’ve offered would be far more lucrative than the previous seven years were, even as good as that was."