Brendan Burke knows it’s going to be different. It’s going to be loud. It’s going to be intense. By the time the fourth Islander fan stopped him on a stroll with his daughter through Huntington on Monday – all to talk about the team – he had a pretty strong sense of the bubbling excitement.
And yet, ahead of Wednesday night’s Game 1 against the Penguins at NYCB Live’s Nassau Coliseum, he offered no big predictions. In his three years as the play-by-play announcer for the Islanders, he’s just learned better.
“It’s tough. Every time you have any sort of expectation for the Coliseum, like Dec.