In an article posted this afternoon at Sports Illustrated, writer Allan Muir spoke with Barclays Center chief communications officer Barry Baum, who confirmed what we had heard last week about the Islanders Ice Girls not making the trip to Brooklyn and being replaced with a team of men and women.
Despite the growing outcry against all-female ice cleaning teams, Baum cited some fan surveying as the impetus to mix things up.
Baum, however, said the Islanders' decision was not motivated by those voices of dissent.
"We decided to go in a different direction," Baum told SI.