With Nassau Coliseum set to host its first playoff games since 2007, county Executive Ed Mangano is looking to score some tickets. In an RFP to Islanders fans, Mangano hopes to lock down a few seats in exchange for favors and kickbacks. (parody)
The Islanders will, for once, be moving from the outhouse to the penthouse, but not before some final drama.
Hockey fans hoping to catch the KHL at Brooklyn's Barclays Center are out of luck now that the Russian hockey league moved the two games back to the home country.
All the New York Islanders/Brooklyn coverage that's fit to link.
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.
The New York Islanders plan a major announcement at Barclays Center with arena developer Bruce Ratner, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman, and New York mayor Michael Bloomberg.
New York Islanders fans waited all summer long to check out hockey at the Barclays Center. Thanks to the incompetent blowhards who run the league and NHLPA, they will now wait much, much longer.
Brooklyn Nets owner says he could maybe possibly think about hockey in his new arena, say perhaps in 2015.
