Uniondale, N.Y. — When the regular season schedule comes out in the summer, most players don’t pay attention.
They’ll live it when the time comes, and anyway, it becomes a blur anyway.
But for Frans Nielsen, when the schedule came out in June, he couldn’t wait. Nielsen wanted to know whether the Red Wings would be playing at the refurbished Nassau Coliseum when the Wings visited the New York Islanders.
“I’m not going to lie, I did look at the schedule when it came out to see if we were going to play at the Coliseum or not,” said Nielsen, who played for the Islanders — at the Coliseum — for 10 seasons before joining the Red Wings.