(The following ran in the New York Times Obituaries this morning and is being re-posted here with permission.)
The New York Islanders' lease with Nassau County, which helped establish the historic team's home base on Long Island while also being at the center of a decades-long feud over money, died peacefully on July 31st in Uniondale, N.Y. The lease was 36.
The document's death was confirmed by the Nassau County Comptroller and Coroner's Office.
A once hopeful pact between a prosperous hockey team and a proud community, the lease eventually found itself behind the times and at odds with the very club it was meant to sustain.