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February 3, 2012
Gallof: A New Home? Don’t Believe The Hype, Islanders Fans
Brooklyn! Trades! Venues! Excitement? It's Time To Temper The Expectations
CBS New York
by B.D. Gallof
More cold water for the Brooklyn Islanders fantasy.
Despite the inevitable media buzz and the glimmer of hope this will create for a downtrodden fan base, the realities of Brooklyn being any more than a diversion and attempt to pick up some interest from other areas, like Queens and Suffolk, while sending a message to Nassau, aren’t many.
The ultimate goal with these smokescreens is to get someone to ante up some options for the team as its lease with Nassau County winds down. The idea of Brooklyn two or three years ago might have had more promise. Back then, the media and blogosphere would innocently parrot notions. Now, anyone parroting them is instead feeding into the Islanders’ own PR aims and hype.
Brooklyn is wrought with issues.
Posted by eric at February 3, 2012 1:48 PM