Work crews at Nassau Coliseum removed the sheet of ice for the final time today, as the Islanders will finally set up shop at Barclays Center starting next season.
The removal was captured in a series of tweets by Newsday videographer Bobby Cassidy, beginning with the removal of the dashers and the loosening of the molding surrounding the ice and culminating in the final scraping of shavings via forklift plow thingy contraption (scientific term).
Some folks prefer to believe the Islanders will come back to Nassau in the future, either temporarily or permanently.