Ladies and gentlemen, your Brooklyn Islanders!

Completely inaccurate.



...they just need to change their name from "Los Angeles" to "The Grove Dodgers."

 

Mike Vaccaro.

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They don't. And most people who go to Devils games don't hop the Path to NYC after the game, OK sock puppet.

 

Had a feeling, just that, this move was going to happen.

What are the economic advantages of the move?

 

Better arena. Hotter market. More seats sold.

 

You'd better hope they start. The franchise is going under.

When the team was at the Meadowlands, they were a fifteen-minute drive from midtown or the financial district on a weeknight and represented a great hockey night alternative to the Rangers. They lost a lot of that audience when they moved to Newark.

Now that the Islanders are moving to Brooklyn - another ten or twenty minute ride - the Devils are in even more trouble.

 

I can see the move being a success if a new chic market coincides with the franchise's youth movement on the ice bearing fruit.

 

The Islanders have been last or next-to-last in NHL attendance for years.

Chic or not, any move closer to New York's actual population center can only help.

 

Having been born in Brooklyn and been there to visit relatives too many times to count, it makes me chuckle -- no, burst out laughing -- when I see it referred to as "chic."

Apparently, Brooklyn has changed a whole lot in the past few years. I remember it as a lot of things, but "chic" is not one of them.

 

Admittedly, I was thinking of the building. Worded poorly on my part. Fine. Brooklyn is a huge piece of shit.

 

Don't arrive by car. There's no parking.

Outside is stunning. Haven't been inside.