in the first round of the Eastern Conference playoffs.
Alas, they lost in Game 7, depriving us of another round of games at Nassau Coliseum … and, well, the chance that the hated New York Rangers might have been the ones to close it out.
Brooklyn beckons next season for the Isles. And as the season is over, that means the ice comes up at the old barn one last time.
Bruce Bennett of Getty Images captured these fantastic, depressing and fantastically depressing images of the ice being demolished at Nassau.
The Islanders move to Barclay's Center next season.