The success story is the team, not the arena. Yet the Islanders and Nassau Coliseum are forever intertwined, even in the venerable barn’s waning days as an NHL facility.
But the Coliseum is not done hosting playoff games yet after the Islanders clinched a playoff series for the first time in 28 years in the building. They outlasted the Penguins and shaky goalie Tristan Jarry, 5-3, in the decisive Game 6 of their first-round series on Wednesday night before a sell-out crowd of 9,000 in a party-like atmosphere.
As the clock ticked down to the Penguins’ elimination, the crowd chanted, "We want Boston.