Developer desperate to bring Isles to Brooklyn

no no no no no

14,500? Still beats the Isles' current attendance average.

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Originally posted 08:42 AM ET  08.03 by Spiny Norman

no no no no no

I agree coz then we wouldn't have Wang to spank anymore.

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Originally posted 08:42 AM ET  08.03 by Spiny Norman

no no no no no

Really it's their only hope. Building another barn in the area just doesn't make practical business sense in terms of attracting concerts etc. it's now too much comp

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Originally posted 08:45 AM ET  08.03 by dannylimes

14,500? Still beats the Isles' current attendance average.

notice they said that's what the barn holds...outside of a NYR game, The Islaners couldn't draw 14.5k if it was N_U_D_E Women's Curling team night

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Originally posted 08:53 AM ET  08.03 by Spiny Norman

notice they said that's what the barn holds...outside of a NYR game, The Islaners couldn't draw 14.5k if it was N_U_D_E Women's Curling team night

awesome....but probably bad naked............

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Originally posted 08:53 AM ET  08.03 by Spiny Norman

notice they said that's what the barn holds...outside of a NYR game, The Islaners couldn't draw 14.5k if it was N_U_D_E Women's Curling team night

It's better on TV.

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Originally posted 09:00 AM ET  08.03 by Othello

awesome....but probably bad naked............

Maybe, but certainly worth a gander I'd say
Or even a goose!

I'd love to see the move to Brooklyn. I don't see what's wrong with this notion at all. There's currently no public transportation to the Nassau Coliseum. Moving to Barclays you could have plenty of fans commute via trains.

Bottom line is, they need to do something. Time and options are running out for Wang.

Not that easy to move them there. They would be closer to the Rangers and to the Devils, neither team might want that.

"And I am trying like [heck] to get the Islanders to make Barclays Center their new hockey home," Bruce Ratner told the New York Daily News"

I hate his Rush Hour movies.

Move the team, change the jerseys. Come on, isn't time they changed the unis to, you know, something good?

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Originally posted 10:08 AM ET  08.03 by santapig

Move the team, change the jerseys. Come on, isn't time they changed the unis to, you know, something good?

You don't like the classic NYI jerseys? I sure do. When they try and get fancy with their colors and logo is when it looks awful.

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Originally posted 08:46 AM ET  08.03 by Canuck eh?

I agree coz then we wouldn't have Wang to spank anymore.

I/ve been out of town. Has Semin signed anywhere yet?

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Originally posted 08:53 AM ET  08.03 by Spiny Norman

notice they said that's what the barn holds...outside of a NYR game, The Islaners couldn't draw 14.5k if it was N_U_D_E Women's Curling team night

Hurry hard !!!!!

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Originally posted 10:19 AM ET  08.03 by Puck082

You don't like the classic NYI jerseys? I sure do. When they try and get fancy with their colors and logo is when it looks awful.

I certainly like them better than anything else they've tried. They've tried to change it and failed miserably. There's just something about the classics that puts me off...it must be the orange. I stand firm in my stance--no one likes orange.

Ok found part of my question answered. The Rangers and Islanders have an agreement that allows the Islanders to move anywhere in Nassau or Suffolk County, Queens or Brooklyn. This stems back to the Islanders paying the Rangers $4.5 million to move to Long Island in 1972 when they joined the league, Don't think the Devils would come into play. Could be good for the Islanders.

Semin signed one year deal with Hurricanes.

Could any Islanders fans here explain to me what happened to this once proud franchise over the last 20 years? I am a Flyers fan, and we had some great battles with the Islanders in the 1980's, and THEY were a our true rival before the Pens/Devils became relevant in the league in the 1990's. Is the ownership just plain stupid and doesn't know how to run a team? Is the ownership cheap like many baseball teams where making a profit is more important then winning? Or is just the saturation in the NY market competing with the Devils and Rangers?