I didn't want to bring this up because it's irrelevant...just like the Islanders Cups being held over peoples heads in 2012.

We're actually tied in Cups.

New York Islanders: 4
1980, 1981, 1982, 1983

Ottawa Senators: 4
1920, 1921, 1923, 1927

You say its 85 years ago, I say yours are 29 years ago. The result is same, 4 Cups and none recently.
- trolleytracks

OK. Stop now this is getting embarrassing(for you just so you know, you seem a little dense).

EVERYTHING JAYZ touches turns to gold...........wait till all the hip hop artists start rocking the isles jerseys.


Sidenote: i really hope they change the colors to the nets new color. I'd love a dirty black uni
- kindlyrick

i'm fine with that for a third jersey only..

More like the leafs moving to Niagara falls, and in that case I think Buffalo would take exception big time.

I don't know NYC very well, but from a map it really looks like the gm's of the rangers and Isles could almost stare at each other out their respective office windows.
- B-Wforever

they already paid that fee when they entered the league

OK. Stop now this is getting embarrassing(for you just so you know, you seem a little dense).
- Cptmjl

How is it embarassing to me? I'm just giving you facts. You brought up the "winning anything" so I responded. Maybe you should finish elementary school before you try to call someone dense.

I didn't want to bring this up because it's irrelevant...just like the Islanders Cups being held over peoples heads in 2012.

We're actually tied in Cups.

New York Islanders: 4
1980, 1981, 1982, 1983

Ottawa Senators: 4
1920, 1921, 1923, 1927

You say its 85 years ago, I say yours are 29 years ago. The result is same, 4 Cups and none recently.
- trolleytracks

the current ottawa senators have nothing to do with the old ones...kinda like the cleveland browns

I didn't want to bring this up because it's irrelevant...just like the Islanders Cups being held over peoples heads in 2012.

We're actually tied in Cups.

New York Islanders: 4
1980, 1981, 1982, 1983

Ottawa Senators: 4
1920, 1921, 1923, 1927

You say its 85 years ago, I say yours are 29 years ago. The result is same, 4 Cups and none recently.
- trolleytracks

Thats on your team now.....
http://www.youtube.com/wa...94F4THaBg&feature=related

i'm fine with that for a third jersey only..
- NYI78

Bro the orange and blue is old..........i refuse to wear anything with orange on it. Replace the Orange with black and im in......

the current ottawa senators have nothing to do with the old ones...kinda like the cleveland browns
- NYI78

Banners still hang. They mean about as much as the Leafs Cups under the Toronto Arenas and Toronto St. Pats. Heck, I'll claim all 11 Cups the Sens were credited with.

am a bit loopy and beyond my bedtime (i work overnights) but Botta just tweeted this... what is he implying?!?!
Chris Botta‏@ChrisBottaNHL

Amount of games John Tavares will play an easy drive from Long Islanders' homes growing smaller.
- 1since40

Just trying to get people all rilled up

You guys have been fun but, tragically, I have to go and can't enjoy this anymore. It's been a good time getting a charge out of you. See you next post

I hope. Murray's brainwashed a lot of those citizens. It still flabbergasts me how short sighted the majority of the politicians have been in all of this. Mangano is the only one (maybe Jacobs, too) that realized what the Islanders leaving Uniondale would really mean from the beginning.

I'm sorry, but that area is poop. Once you get past Hofstra, the neighborhood is pure ghetto. Who the hell is gonna want to set up shop where the Coliseum sits now?? Say goodbye to the Marriot, that's for sure. You're looking at senior and low-level housing and co-ops. Period. Stupid mall-like businesses that already litter the area. There is NOTHING around there. They can talk about future revenues and jobs until they are blue in the face, IT AIN'T HAPPENING.

Oh well...too late now.

Never thought I'd type these words, the area around the Barclay's Center has gentrified so much in the last decade that it's probably safer to be around there then in Hempstead. No joke.
- potvin05

Down the line Nassau will find a way to refurbish or rebuild it,,, without a tenant... Who knows maybe 10 years from now the sound tigers will be playing there... but all of Nassau.. from the politicians to the residents dropped the ball on this one & as much as I hate them leaving Uniondale.. I hope they make alot of anti-lighthouse, anti-islanders, anti-progress supporters cry. I love this friggen team & if Brooklyn is their best option to regain their once proud heritage, to once again be a respected franchise... So be it!

XxNYIxX

Not really. Getting off the LIRR and walking up a couple flights of stairs to the garden is a bit easier.
- Cptmjl

Your right, walking 5ft across the platform and then ascending steps is a true pain in the ass that only a true athletic speciman could perform.

Just trying to get people all rilled up
- latorrem1

no hes not....

edit: from earlier...."all it means is that he has 3 years of games that long islanders will be able to drive to and being that the nhl just canceled up until nov 30, that number just shrank"

Your right, walking 5ft across the platform and then ascending steps is a true pain in the ass that only a true athletic speciman could perform.
- latorrem1

But the GAP! WHAT ABOUT THE GAP!?!?

"There will be no more tailgate parties, no post game cocktails at Champions, no Chris King radio broadcasts from The Blue Line and no Season Ticket Holder picnics at the park on Hempstead Turnpike. New fans will have missed the Islanders Business Club, the Meet & Greets at Gate 1, the Town Hall Meetings, the bands and balloons on opening days, Jello shots with the GM and Dominick’s Islander Mania bar-b-ques."

ALL THIS CRAP YOU LITSED IS PART OF THE REASON THE ISLES ARE A LAUGHING STOCK. BUSH LEAGUE PR.
NOW THAT THEY'RE IN A ENW ARENA WE CAN REPLACE ALL THE ABOVE: STARTING WITH REAL RADIO BROADCASTS(KING CAN STAY HE'S GOOD, HE SHOULD TAKEOVER THE POORLY WRITTEN BLOG), MEETINGS WITH REAL FREE AGNETS AND NHL LEVEL COACHES INSTAED OF TOWNHALLS, POP ALL THE BALLOONS, SEND THE EMBARRASING BANDS BACK TO MULCHAEYS AND MOST OFF HAVE A GM NOT DO JELLO SHOTS BUT HIRE A GOOD PLAYER DEVELOPMENT STAFF.

215 B 3 4

Bro the orange and blue is old..........i refuse to wear anything with orange on it. Replace the Orange with black and im in......
- kindlyrick

no reason to change the blue and orange..its classic..update the logo fine..but keep the colors they work

Banners still hang. They mean about as much as the Leafs Cups under the Toronto Arenas and Toronto St. Pats. Heck, I'll claim all 11 Cups the Sens were credited with.
- trolleytracks

i didn't know that..nevermind then

Bottom line is any Islander fan who complains about this move is complaining for selfish reasons. This is the best thing that could have happened for this team. Even if they got a new arena in nassau it wouldn't have given this team the exposure it needs like Brooklyn does. Moving to B gives them the exposure they need and they will now bring in that corporate money as well. So god forbid you have to take a train to go to a game. Going to an Islander game will be an event for the first time in a long time. The best is how you hear people saying its almost impossible to get there by train. Its the same facking route to MSG expect you get off at Jamaica and walk 5ft to the next rail that drops you off at the steps of the arena. For every Long Islander who says they won't be going now that they moved to B there will be two new people taking your spot. The way salaries are today teams need that big time exposure and corporate money to survive. They weren't getting neither on the Island with a new building or not. Like somebody said earlier this isn't the 70's or 80's anymore. Adapt or Die!!!
- Vukota

Nicely said Mick!

XxNYIxX

Down the line Nassau will find a way to refurbish or rebuild it,,, without a tenant... Who knows maybe 10 years from now the sound tigers will be playing there... but all of Nassau.. from the politicians to the residents dropped the ball on this one & as much as I hate them leaving Uniondale.. I hope they make alot of anti-lighthouse, anti-islanders, anti-progress supporters cry. I love this friggen team & if Brooklyn is their best option to regain their once proud heritage, to once again be a respected franchise... So be it!

XxNYIxX
- XxNYIxX

islanders own the sound tigers and the building in bport and have a 15 year lease there that started last year

no reason to change the blue and orange..its classic..update the logo fine..but keep the colors they work
- NYI78

The colors dont work,..........any islander article of clothing i'd wear, has the least amount of orange on it. Im sorry but the orange is just brutal to me. For one thing it screams mets.......and its just ugly

EVERYTHING JAYZ touches turns to gold...........wait till all the hip hop artists start rocking the isles jerseys.


Sidenote: i really hope they change the colors to the nets new color. I'd love a dirty black uni
- kindlyrick

You mean as a third Jersey of course.. yes?

Not do away with the Orange, white & blue.

XxNYIxX

islanders own the sound tigers and the building in bport and have a 15 year lease there that started last year
- NYI78

ok 15 years from now

XxNYIxX

Anyone who's upset about this should have their head examined.

This is a win-win as far as I'm concerned. Reading the local papers and some of the comments from "fans," I wanted to know what drugs they are taking. They are moving to Brooklyn, not Timbuktu. They will have the same name, the same history and the same logo. The only thing that changes is that they play in a World-class, top-of-the-line arena in an area where any player or potential UFA can live in the suburbs or live in Manhattan and not be far from their job.

I rag on Charles Wang a lot, and he, for the most part, deserves every ounce of it. He meddles in personnel moves, he says stupid things in relation to the sport of hockey, he makes a lot of head scratching hires and fires, but this is a decision where I have to give Wang a loud, raucous standing ovation. They are here for another 27 years and now you can take the train (easily, too) to get there. No more drinking and driving for the fans, no more asbestos, no more bottom of the barrel crap.

If you don't want to get on the train, so to say, then stay the hell off it, because if you're gonna use this as an excuse to not be a fan anymore, especially in this day and age of the Internet, then you never were one in the first place. Sayonara, don't let the door hit you on the way out.

In truth, I would have been an Islanders fan no matter where they moved. Could have been Quebec, could have been KC, could have been Japan, I'd still b an Islanders fan. Where'd they go? Brooklyn...yep...Long Island.

Kudos Mr. Wang, you deserve it. I gladly eat the humble pie. This is the best news since the team made its run in '93.

And Kate Murray and the Town of Hempstead...I hope you're (frank)ing happy. The Nassau Hub (as they now will call it) will be a dustbowl of low-level housing and mall-like stores. All the local businesses that thrive and make money because a pro team played within its radius will go out of business and hundreds, if not thousands, of jobs will be lost. You're getting killed by the fans, the people and the media, and you deserve every ounce of it you NIMBY, backwards, mother(frank)ers. The NVMC will be leveled within 5 years, guaranteed, and our dump, which WAng offered to rebuild and fund HIMSELF in '07 will be gone and every Isles game, concert, circus, etc. will have to take place somewhere else...a loss for us, a loss for kids and a loss for future generations. Congrats Ms. Murray, you got exactly what you were looking for. Take a bow, and eat another doughnut. Sleep tight.
- potvin05

Very late to the party here, but this is the post of the year! Bravo my friend.

"There will be no more tailgate parties, no post game cocktails at Champions, no Chris King radio broadcasts from The Blue Line and no Season Ticket Holder picnics at the park on Hempstead Turnpike. New fans will have missed the Islanders Business Club, the Meet & Greets at Gate 1, the Town Hall Meetings, the bands and balloons on opening days, Jello shots with the GM and Dominick’s Islander Mania bar-b-ques."

ALL THIS CRAP YOU LITSED IS PART OF THE REASON THE ISLES ARE A LAUGHING STOCK. BUSH LEAGUE PR.
NOW THAT THEY'RE IN A ENW ARENA WE CAN REPLACE ALL THE ABOVE: STARTING WITH REAL RADIO BROADCASTS(KING CAN STAY HE'S GOOD, HE SHOULD TAKEOVER THE POORLY WRITTEN BLOG), MEETINGS WITH REAL FREE AGNETS AND NHL LEVEL COACHES INSTAED OF TOWNHALLS, POP ALL THE BALLOONS, SEND THE EMBARRASING BANDS BACK TO MULCHAEYS AND MOST OFF HAVE A GM NOT DO JELLO SHOTS BUT HIRE A GOOD PLAYER DEVELOPMENT STAFF.

215 B 3 4
- fmack19

What is Tattoo Lou going to do??

XxNYIxX

Your right, walking 5ft across the platform and then ascending steps is a true pain in the ass that only a true athletic speciman could perform.
- latorrem1