DustDevil61 Posted October 4, 2009 Share Posted October 4, 2009 From the Associated Press through Yahoo! Sports:Isles to explore all options, including moving Of all the teams in the NHL, the New York Islanders are one of the teams that I don't want to see move, with all their Stanley Cup championships in the 80s and their rivalry with the Rangers. However, if they must move, I'd be all for a move to Hartford (provided an arena is in place). What are your thoughts on the subject? Discuss it here.(Sorry if this is a duplicate thread.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charger77 Posted October 4, 2009 Share Posted October 4, 2009 I'd like a move to Canada if it had to happen.-Dan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dfwabel Posted October 4, 2009 Share Posted October 4, 2009 From the Associated Press through Yahoo! Sports:Isles to explore all options, including moving Of all the teams in the NHL, the New York Islanders are one of the teams that I don't want to see move, with all their Stanley Cup championships in the 80s and their rivalry with the Rangers. However, if they must move, I'd be all for a move to Hartford (provided an arena is in place). What are your thoughts on the subject? Discuss it here.(Sorry if this is a duplicate thread.) You forgot to mention numerous important parts of the story. Sorry, but you fail. 1-Isles owner Charles Wang and Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi agreed to a long-term lease that would keep the team at a renovated Nassau Coliseum through 2030.2-Then Wang turned around and said he was cutting off talks unless the development project was immediately approved: "This is not the point to start negotiating anything. It's yes or no."3-The threat was levied at the Hempstead town board, which has yet to agree to zoning changes to allow Wang and partner Scott Rechler to build the $3.8 billion Lighthouse project, which would include a hotel, office buildings, and a convention center, on what's currently public land around the arena. (Under the new lease, Wang would spend $320 million of his own money to renovate Nassau Coliseum, plus pay $1.5 million in rent, but would get to lease 77 acres of county-owned land for $1.).http://www.fieldofschemes.com/news/archives/2009/10/3856_islanders_sign.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEAD! Posted October 4, 2009 Share Posted October 4, 2009 I'd like a move to Canada if it had to happen.-DanFine .. PEI it is... the Prince Edward Islanders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigMac12 Posted October 4, 2009 Share Posted October 4, 2009 Renovating Nassau seems more like a band-aid than a real fix.That said, I don't want the Islanders to leave the New York area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigMac12 Posted October 4, 2009 Share Posted October 4, 2009 Could the team make a deal with the New Jersey/Brooklyn Nets with the Barclays Center?If so, can the team nickname still be the Islanders? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
habsfan1 Posted October 4, 2009 Share Posted October 4, 2009 I'd like a move to Canada if it had to happen.-DanSame for me. With some obvious candidates lacking a suitable arena, I don't really have a preference in cities. I just want the league to have a 7th canadian franchise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mania Posted October 4, 2009 Share Posted October 4, 2009 Kansas City Islanders.EDIT: Was that always in the sub heading? Anyways, since my lame one liner has already been taken, I think that 3 teams in the NY/NJ area is excessive, and the Islanders, who despite their SC wins in the 80s, is one of the most forgettable teams in sports, probably for the reason they're #3 in their own market. At least, pretty much no matter where they move, they'll look better, that's an up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DallasSports Posted October 4, 2009 Share Posted October 4, 2009 Why does everybody want Kansas City to have an NHL team? They're not even the largest market without an NHL team in North America. Houston is, and on a much grander scale.Bias aside, I want the Islanders to stay put for the most part, but it wouldn't kill me if they moved. In fact, it would be better if they moved to Canada. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJTank Posted October 4, 2009 Share Posted October 4, 2009 Could the team make a deal with the New Jersey/Brooklyn Nets with the Barclays Center?If so, can the team nickname still be the Islanders?Yes technically Brooklyn is part of Long Island Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LMU Posted October 4, 2009 Share Posted October 4, 2009 Why does everybody want Kansas City to have an NHL team? They're not even the largest market without an NHL team in North America. Houston is, and on a much grander scale.Bias aside, I want the Islanders to stay put for the most part, but it wouldn't kill me if they moved. In fact, it would be better if they moved to Canada.Kansas City has the arena already built. That should throw them to the front of the line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dfwabel Posted October 4, 2009 Share Posted October 4, 2009 Why does everybody want Kansas City to have an NHL team? They're not even the largest market without an NHL team in North America. Houston is, and on a much grander scale.Bias aside, I want the Islanders to stay put for the most part, but it wouldn't kill me if they moved. In fact, it would be better if they moved to Canada.People want KC in since the Scouts left and there are too many here, while young or old, who romanticize sport to excess. Kansas City built a new facility with no real tenant and no real hopes to land one, however people on the CCSLC love to dream. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rams80 Posted October 4, 2009 Share Posted October 4, 2009 Why does everybody want Kansas City to have an NHL team? They're not even the largest market without an NHL team in North America. Houston is, and on a much grander scale.Bias aside, I want the Islanders to stay put for the most part, but it wouldn't kill me if they moved. In fact, it would be better if they moved to Canada.They have a brand spanking new arena sitting there without a major tenant. That's why. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJTank Posted October 4, 2009 Share Posted October 4, 2009 We got the Devils and Rangers here, may be its time for the Isles to go. This is a franchise that has been poorly run for 20 years and has had one con after another, and their fan base seems to be all but gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dfwabel Posted October 4, 2009 Share Posted October 4, 2009 We "got"? Nice grammar. Your other phrases are actually more acceptable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the admiral Posted October 4, 2009 Share Posted October 4, 2009 Get Balsillie interested in buying them, then they'll never leave! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dfwabel Posted October 4, 2009 Share Posted October 4, 2009 Get Balsillie interested in buying them, then they'll never leave!Stop it, Have Tank want to learn and see F1! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJTank Posted October 4, 2009 Share Posted October 4, 2009 Thank you Princeton Review of Books. I forgot this is the Oxford Chat room there is no room here for informality we must speak like we have an iron rod inserted up our spines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the admiral Posted October 4, 2009 Share Posted October 4, 2009 Thank you Princeton Review of Books. Best way to ace your creepy esoteric personal ads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dfwabel Posted October 4, 2009 Share Posted October 4, 2009 Thank you Princeton Review of Books. I forgot this is the Oxford Chat room there is no room here for informality we must speak like we have an iron rod inserted up our spines.Every post you give us, I appreciate the education which my parents delivered me and they were successful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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