DarkHorse2
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Isles' Arena Shut Down
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This will probably be resolved before next season starts but if it is not. There will be probably be other options besides Barclay Center for the iles to play home games.
the Nets G-League team is also based out of the Coliseum and the Liberty are already at Barclays after leaving MSG....
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Depends how soon fans are allowed back in and when next season starts, oddly the timing isn't bad for this to happen.
Hopefully, Belmont opens on time and building issues will be behind this team. With Belmont opening, does the Colosseum really have much of a future? The rebuild seems like such a waste.
Hopefully, Belmont opens on time and building issues will be behind this team. With Belmont opening, does the Colosseum really have much of a future? The rebuild seems like such a waste.
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It wasn't even a rebuild. More like lipstick on a pig.
Once Belmont was announced the coliseum was done for.
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The Barclay Center's management was hoping for a AHL team for Nassau but the Iles refused to move the Sound Tigers.
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Bridgeport, Centrum, wasn't going anywhere anyway, it hadn't since the Sound Tigers arrived there, and the eventual end of New Haven, professionally, in favor of Bridgeport.... where do you think Manchester acquired the franchise rights to the Fisher Cats (then the New Haven Ravens) while still having the Monarchs until 2019....
same thing transpired in Hartford with the New Britain/Hardware City Rock Cats morphing into the Hartford Yard Goats, to keep affiliated baseball in Connecticut.
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it's Rangers territory on top of that, the only option if not BARCLAYS is Bridgeport
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Speaking as a current resident of Wethersfield, just south of Hartford, Hartford is 50/50 Boston and New York for almost every major sport. However, that has absolutely nothing to do with the Islanders or their current situation. The XL Center is in pretty rough shape, and with COVID-19 depleting the state's resources, proposed renovations are a complete non-starter. They've been patching up problems for years to delay the inevitable, but I think that the pandemic just ushered in the end of that facility. I don't see that state continuing to run it at a loss when there's no money left.
Back to the subject at hand, I'm not sure this has a huge impact on the Islanders at all. For all we know, the NHL will continue to operate in clusters at major hub cities without fans for the foreseeable future. That may buy the Islanders some time until Belmont is completed.
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NYCB Live's Nassau Coliseum will shut its doors indefinitely as billionaire operator Mikhail Prokhorov seeks investors to take over the lease of the 13,000-seat venue and assume the remaining $100 million in debt, a Prokhorov spokeswoman said Tuesday.
How did Prokhorov end up with this debt?
Rangers have no control over NHL games played in Hartford. Neither does Boston. Rangers only control NHL games within 50 miles of New York city limit, not already ceded to NYI (long Island) and the Devils.
Hartford is well outside that zone.
The NHL would vote on whether any team could temporarily or permanently move to Hartford.
Hartford has no modern arena that would work even temporary even then the NHL isn't going to let the islander play any games outside the NY market.
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In a situation where it’s a scramble for a wholly temporary place to play, like this one where the Islanders new arena will be done for 21-22, many of the standards for what an arena needs to be would go out the window. Hartford would be a very viable option in a lot of cases. The fact that this is happening to a team in this particular market means Hartford isn’t the most viable option here. In this particular case. If this happened to a team in a more isolated market, and they had a Hartford type arena relatively nearby and little else but amateur rinks or minor pro rinks that seat less than 12,000.... that Hartford type arena is where they’d go.
It’s not the specs of Hartford arena that make it not an option in this case. It’s the other, better options that exist in the area.
Prokhorov’s Onexim Sports and Entertainment operates the arena under a lease from Nassau County
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Does the Hartford Civic Center still exist? A few times when the Baltimore Blast were in town we went to see them play the Hellions in the old MiSL. We moved from Baltimore to Naugatuck for stretch.
Where the Islanders play in 2021 is moot - until there is a vaccine New York State is NOT going to allow massive gatherings especially indoors.
That's assume no one decide to challenge the ban on public gatherings in the meantime and only take one lawsuit to have potentially thrown out.
Oh we will see lawsuits everywhere but
Will fans come back?
The reality today is people in large urban areas are scared about taking the subway.
