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August 3, 2011
What the Long Island Vote Means for the Islanders (and NHL Fans)
Grantland
by Katie Baker
The vote returns had scarcely been counted by the time many settled on that most universal of solutions: "Move to Brooklyn!"
With a brand new arena rising in Atlantic Yards that will soon hold the Brooklyn s, it seems like an obvious fit. But fit is actually exactly the problem: the arena's original design was tweaked (as these things always are) to lower costs, and the result is less than ideal. The ice surface could be regulation size, but so many seats would have to be taken out to make it so that the arena would end up with the smallest capacity in the league. And the Isles would be the Barclays Center's lowly second tenant. Those are worrisome limitations for a franchise trying to forge a fresh start.
Posted by eric at August 3, 2011 8:54 AM