The Islanders begin their first regular season in Barclays Center tonight and I don't think I'm being paranoid when I say that absolutely everything they do or don't do in connection to their new arena will be meticulously scrutinized under the most intense of 21st century social media microscopes.
They won't sell enough tickets and the seats won't be good enough and the transportation will be terrible and the sounds and colors will be all wrong and there won't be food and the team (probably) won't win enough games and the whole thing will be an unmitigated disaster.