I was talking to a friend of mine who has lived and (mostly) died with the Islanders most of his adult life. He attended the two games the Isles played against the Penguins at Nassau Coliseum, and he will attend however many more games they will play the rest of the way at Barclays Center.
He was, as most Islanders fans are, a little wistful.
“I’ve never had more fun watching a sporting event as I did watching those two games at the Coliseum,” he said, and this is a guy who is successful enough in his career that he was in both Phoenix and Indianapolis when his Giants won Super Bowls and in San Diego when his ’98 Yankees won the 125th and final game of an epic season.