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Islanders moving to Barclay Center in 2015. About damn time they left the Island

Brooklyn is still the island...

WTF wrote:Brooklyn is still the island...

Technically, yes. I have in-laws in Suffolk County. They're not taking the train to Brooklyn.

It was inevitable.

With a new building, and the struggles they've had getting a new building on the Island, it had to happen. It was either Brooklyn or Quebec, so the locals are making out as well as they can.

Only thing is I've heard the building was not built with hockey in mind, and for the exhibition game that was scheduled this pre-season, there were going to be obstructed view seats.

The Locals will end up happy about this. Much easier to take the train than drive and you can get nice and sloppy drunk.

The Colliseum is probably the worst arena in the entire country. It's the absolute pits and not just because it's a shithole. It's dangerous.

Lets hope they don't fuck up the uni's like the Nets did!

Bassmaster1984 wrote:Lets hope they don't fuck up the uni's like the Nets did!

From an email I got today from barclay's:

"In support of the illustrious history of the team, the Islanders logo and name will remain unchanged."

They could well change the uniforms a bit though I suppose.

Bassmaster1984 wrote:Lets hope they don't fuck up the uni's like the Nets did!

They've done quite well fucking up their uni's over the years without Jay-Z's help.

Crazy Levi wrote:

Bassmaster1984 wrote:Lets hope they don't fuck up the uni's like the Nets did!

From an email I got today from barclay's:

"In support of the illustrious history of the team, the Islanders logo and name will remain unchanged."

They could well change the uniforms a bit though I suppose.

They'll have to tweak the logo a little bit. Today I read that the Long Island shape doesn't include Brooklyn. I never noticed that before.

Crazy Levi wrote:The Locals will end up happy about this. Much easier to take the train than drive and you can get nice and sloppy drunk.

The Colliseum is probably the worst arena in the entire country. It's the absolute pits and not just because it's a shithole. It's dangerous.

The steps there are fucking insane. Like some drunk guy poured the concrete after a blind guy built the forms. But those banners are beautiful.

I'm happy, something needed to be done.

Do you think if the Lighthouse project has materialized, had the Nets moved to Queens rather than to Brooklyn?

The pic that doesn't show up just set off my Avast! as a virus.
They must have really fucked that one up.

Tenacious_Dio wrote:

Crazy Levi wrote:

Bassmaster1984 wrote:Lets hope they don't fuck up the uni's like the Nets did!

From an email I got today from barclay's:

"In support of the illustrious history of the team, the Islanders logo and name will remain unchanged."

They could well change the uniforms a bit though I suppose.

They'll have to tweak the logo a little bit. Today I read that the Long Island shape doesn't include Brooklyn. I never noticed that before.

The NHL insisted the logo and name stay the same. I don't know if many people know this but Bettman has been an Isles fan since he was a kid. No wonder he's a miserable prick.

FUllD, I have no clue, man. I'm not from there so i don't know much about that.

NeverSurrender wrote:

Tenacious_Dio wrote:
They'll have to tweak the logo a little bit. Today I read that the Long Island shape doesn't include Brooklyn. I never noticed that before.

The NHL insisted the logo and name stay the same.

I realize that, but the current logo only shows Nassau and Suffolk counties. I'm guessing they'll add the west end of the island.

The logo will be unchanged buy order of the league to agree to the move they had to agree not to change it. Thank God for that.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck- ... --nhl.html

WOLF wrote:It was inevitable.

With a new building, and the struggles they've had getting a new building on the Island, it had to happen. It was either Brooklyn or Quebec, so the locals are making out as well as they can.

Only thing is I've heard the building was not built with hockey in mind, and for the exhibition game that was scheduled this pre-season, there were going to be obstructed view seats.

Oh it looks fine



Reminds me of when Phoenix had an end of the ice where a balcony was hanging over a goal. When the puck went to that end, everyone had to look up at the scoreboard because they couldn't see what was going on right near them.

Garbageman wrote:

WOLF wrote:It was inevitable.

With a new building, and the struggles they've had getting a new building on the Island, it had to happen. It was either Brooklyn or Quebec, so the locals are making out as well as they can.

Only thing is I've heard the building was not built with hockey in mind, and for the exhibition game that was scheduled this pre-season, there were going to be obstructed view seats.

Oh it looks fine



Reminds me of when Phoenix had an end of the ice where a balcony was hanging over a goal. When the puck went to that end, everyone had to look up at the scoreboard because they couldn't see what was going on right near them.

oh god and for one billion dollars you could probably build a football stadium or a skyscraper...anyone know why the construction cost was so high? Was it the subway station?

You want to know why an arena is Brooklyn costs so much? Crazy Levi paid 60 bucks for bbq in NYC, and I paid 16 bucks for a ketel 1 on the rocks.


I also heard it's very nice. Some Isles fans went to see the Nets play and wrote about it.

NeverSurrender wrote:You want to know why an arena is Brooklyn costs so much? Crazy Levi paid 60 bucks for bbq in NYC, and I paid 16 bucks for a ketel 1 on the rocks.


I also heard it's very nice. Some Isles fans went to see the Nets play and wrote about it.

jews spending money on worthless crap in new york that's something new.

I'm not a jew (not even close), but NYC is pretty fucking expensive.

NeverSurrender wrote:I'm not a jew (not even close), but NYC is pretty fucking expensive.

Why don't you move to Israel and get rockets in you backyard if you have such problem living in expensive New York?

I live in Florida. But I went to two isles games last year.

BTW, weren't you the one COMPLAINING about the price of the building? I surely wasn't.

You've been wrong in this thread a lot.

NeverSurrender wrote:I live in Florida. But I went to two isles games last year.

BTW, weren't you the one COMPLAINING about the price of the building? I surely wasn't.

You've been wrong in this thread a lot.

Yea sorry if IMO if you spend a billion dollars on an indoor arena maybe you should make sure it's fine for both basket and hockey.

I believe Staples center in LA, Bell center in Montreal, were both built to a third of the cost. How is not a legitimate question?

There were a multitude of things that added up in that cost. The prices of real estate, legal battles, and union labor are three major factors they dealt with that have a much lower price tag outside of NYC. It would be fun to compare the labor costs in some of these buildings vs Barclays and see how much having to use union labor on absolutely everything really costs.

That train station could be expensive as hell too. When Staples Center was announced, L.A. looked at extending their (then under construction) subway four blocks to be next to the arena. They couldn't afford to do it and probably regret it now with L.A. Live and the potential football stadium next door to Staples.

I'll be attending the Stones show on Saturday, and will be sure to let you all know if the place is worth the money those Jews forked out to get it made.