Barclays Center Analyzing Sightlines, "Capacity Issues" For NHL Hockey
by Net Income on Aug 11, 2011 12:39 PM EDT
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The Nets and Barclays Center are actively looking into making the Brooklyn arena more attractive for NHL hockey, both in terms of capacity and sight lines.
"We are analyzing the capacity issues in more detail," said an official of Barclays Center. His emailed statement was in response to a NetsDaily query asking about a "change order" listed among arena expenditures. The order, for a little less than $3,000, was listed as "Design - Sight Line Study for Hockey".
That official said that study was complete but didn't expand on its conclusions. However, it was completed before Brett Yormark issued a statement saying the Barclays Center could host NHL hockey.
All of this, of course, relates to the speculation that the New York Islanders might be seeking a new home after voters in Nassau County rejected a $400 million bond issue to build a new arena to replace Nassau Coliseum. Barclays Center, which was downsized in 2009, has a capacity of 18,000 for basketball, but only about 14,500 for hockey and questionable sight lines.
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if proky buys them
Islanders vs Rangers
Nets vs Kniks
let’s get it started…..
by Aidar Berlinbayev on Aug 11, 2011 12:56 PM EDT reply actions
The way the Islanders have been playing lately...
the bad “sight lines” might be a blessing in disguise…
“We can give you bad seats sir…but that will cost you extra”
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@darooster8 we are a small but intelligent group of superbeings.
You obviously don't follow hockey
because Isles finished their last season strong. If it wasn’t for incredible slump in the beginning of the year, they would have made PO. Today more and more analysts call Isles sleepers in the Atlantic Division with good chances of making post season. Their offensive talent is undeniable. Once they add solid first pair D-man – beware!
by Belarus4life on Aug 11, 2011 2:55 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
The Islanders are probably one of the top 3 worst NHL hockey teams...
this millennium. I root for them but they have not made the playoffs in years.
Hopefully that changes soon, and I’m hoping they move into Brooklyn soon…
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@darooster8 we are a small but intelligent group of superbeings.
I'll take that last comment back...
They did do pretty well in 2004/2005 *
*2004/05: Season Cancelled Due to Lock Out
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They last made the playoffs in 2006-07
If you’re a Net fan, that should sound pretty familiar to you…
by Proballxx on Aug 11, 2011 6:00 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
"You obviously don't follow hockey"
“because Isles finished their last season strong. If it wasn’t for incredible slump in the beginning of the year, they would have made PO” – Belarus4life
The season couldn’t end soon enough for the Islanders. The worst team in the Atlantic Division closed out the year by losing four straight and seven of its last eight.
Who doesn’t follow hockey ?
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@darooster8 we are a small but intelligent group of superbeings.
Heh
"Dont blame me, I was given this world, I didn’t make it."
-Tupac Shakur
by NetsMets4Life on Aug 11, 2011 3:36 PM EDT up reply actions
I went to my first hockey game in the old MSG in 1966...
I actually had to sit on a bench way on top of the garden. My first table top hockey game, made out metal, was given to me by an older family friend in the 1960’s , who was born and raised in Canada. It was a beautifully constructed game and I wish I still had it. It was so old that it only had the original six NHL teams. You could replace the players on the game with any of the six hockey teams then in existence. Later on they made cheaper plastic models that sucked when compared to the one I had.
After the 1994 Rangers won the Stanley Cup, one of my friends at the time was called up by Neil Smith the Rangers G.M. and he was invited to be one of only three longtime Ranger fans on the ice for the festivities on opening day the next season. He was so honored and excited and would bend my Islander ears every day during that period.
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@darooster8 we are a small but intelligent group of superbeings.
They were in the PO mix with 10-15 games left.
Once they were mathematically eliminated – they mailed it in.
Go check more numbers.
by Belarus4life on Aug 11, 2011 3:57 PM EDT up reply actions
Oh I'm sorry, you are right...
I went and checked the numbers and the Islanders were robbed !
If the NHL didn’t unfairly count the first and last parts of the season, the Islanders would of been Stanley Cup champs…
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@darooster8 we are a small but intelligent group of superbeings.
they were never in the mix
i dont think they ever got higher than 11th place last season. the devils had a poor start and went on a tear to almost make the playoffs coming to within 6 points(3 games) of 8th place after something like a 5-18-2 start
isles are a joke. poor owner, crappy arena, no fans, bad front office. sure they have tavares, okposo, and bailey but they have a terrible defense further worsened by some abysmal backstop play led by dipietro
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by starbury_to_s-jaxci2000 on Aug 11, 2011 5:50 PM EDT up reply actions
Islanders will still be on Long Island if they move to Brooklyn...
“The far left side of the island is Brooklyn”
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by M I K E on Aug 11, 2011 2:41 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Very interesting...
Thanks for the Geography lesson
"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven"
Many people don't realize that Brooklyn and Queens...
probably close to 5 million people between them, are on Long Island.
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by M I K E on Aug 11, 2011 3:14 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
not probably
easy 5 million…and there isn’t a train station within a mile of Nassau Coliseum.
In addition the LIRR and the nine subway lines under Barclays, there are two other lines about four blocks away…major lines the A and C, and a little farther away is the G line, which connects to Queens.
by Net Income on Aug 11, 2011 4:09 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
More and more likely
It seems more and more likely that the Islanders will play in BC from 2013+
I don’t think it particularly matters whether Prokhorov buys the team – i still think Wang or a new owner would figure BC is the best option.
by Yi Of Little Faith on Aug 11, 2011 3:03 PM EDT reply actions
Things are getting better and better.
Or if you are a neighbor of Barclays this horrible news……Nobody streams urine like a Hockey fan!!!
The Manhole covers will explode due to the pressure!
U-reeka the smell of the U-rena!
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