It’ll have to wait until next season — if it happens at all.
The Rangers have still not won a regular-season game in Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, dropping their sixth straight to the Islanders, 2-1, on Thursday night.
The Islanders (34-37-10) had won the first five matches in Brooklyn between these two as urban rivals starting in 2015-16, and they have beaten the Rangers (34-38-9) in 10 of the previous 11 contests over that span. The Isles have been approved to build a new arena at Belmont Park, but for at least the next two seasons, they are going to split home games between Barclays Center and the renovated Coliseum — and there’s no guarantee where the games against the Rangers will be.