Pat LaFontaine was in Brooklyn on Wednesday, talking hockey and signing autographs, barely a mile from the Barclays Center. But the former Islanders star has yet to attend a game there, more than halfway into the team’s first season in Brooklyn.
“It’s just the timing,” he said after an appearance at the Brooklyn Historical Society tied to the Islanders’ move to Brooklyn and an ongoing exhibit on the NHL’s Brooklyn Americans of 1941-42.
“It’s kind of hard for me to go there,” LaFontaine said. “I shouldn’t say that, because I work for the league. But I will get there eventually.