As the Islanders get ready for their first season at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, their former home sits quietly back on Long Island prepping for a long-awaited facelift.
The Islanders played their final game at Nassau Coliseum on April 25, a 3-1 win over the Capitals in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference quarterfinals. A Game 7 loss in Washington signaled the end of the Islanders’ 43-year run at “The Barn” and reality set in that the team would next call Brooklyn home.
But ever since the Islanders announced in September 2012 that they would be relocated to the Barclays Center, there have been many people that have speculated that perhaps, if a new facility ever became reality, one day the franchise would return to Long Island.