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http://www.newsday.com/sports/colum...nassau-coliseum-to-barclays-center-1.11766555
Islanders fans generated thunder, and the Lightning heard them loud and clear.
The home-crowd support was not quite enough to carry the Islanders to a victory in Game 3 of the teams’ second-round playoff series Tuesday night, but the visiting Lightning is taking that factor seriously heading into Game 4 Friday night.
“Oh, it was rowdy,†coach Jon Cooper said after practice in New Jersey on Thursday. “It’s obviously a different feel than Nassau Coliseum. Nassau was a little more, I guess, intimate, just because of the way the structure is built. But the fans haven’t changed and they’re really passionate about their team and you see the Islanders feed off them.â€