"We’re going to blow the ceiling off this place," Frank Kaplan of Brooklyn said. "They’re going to need a new roof. We might have to move into UBS [Arena] while it’s being constructed."
Thus did the world take another step toward normalcy on Thursday night, as Islanders fans finally gathered in significant numbers for the team’s first home playoff game in two years, with the clock ticking on Nassau Coliseum’s postseason life.
For Kaplan and other fans gathered in the Coliseum parking lot before Game 3 of the first-round playoff series against the Penguins, there was no doubt in their minds they would make a difference.