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March 16, 2012
New York Islanders/MSG Just Happen To Interview Brooklyn Barclays Center Developer Bruce Ratner
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Poor Bruce Ratner is milking the big lie about hockey at the Barclays Center for everything it's worth. Though hockey ambassador Bruce's "real goal is to make sure the Islanders stay in New York honestly," which, considering the source, is kind of an oxymoron.
The first intermission of MSG's broadcast of the New York Islanders vs. Philadelphia Flyers game carried an interesting surprise: A lengthy interview between Islanders play-by-play announcer Howie Rose and Bruce Ratner, the original developer of the Barclays Center, the Brooklyn arena many hope the Islanders will one day call home.
The Islanders will play a preseason game there against the New Jersey Devils Oct. 2 (tickets, it was mentioned, go on sale March 29), so there is your ostensible reason for the interview. But the interview on the home team's broadcast was not treated as a sales pitch for the preseason game -- it was an open "So, could the Islanders move to Brooklyn?" forum with only cursory verbiage paid to finding a solution in Nassau County and the Town of Hempstead that has been such a gracious home.
Posted by eric at March 16, 2012 1:03 PM