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by Paul on 01/20/09 at 12:08 PM ET
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from John Jeansonne of Newsday,
As power plays go, the Islanders’ wink-wink confirmation of a planned preseason game in Kansas City—and NHL commissioner Gary Bettman’s sympathetic comments about needing to replace “that building” in Nassau County—wouldn’t get past the red line of most skeptics.
We are supposed to make the leap from public knowledge that owner Charles Wang’s “Lighthouse Project” plan to redo Nassau Coliseum is on hold, to the fact that Kansas City has a spanking new arena actively in search of an NHL team. But experts in the matter are tolerably certain that a franchise move is virtually nonexistent, though this well-worn ploy and the veiled-threat manner in which it was presented is not the least big surprising.
“The typical playbook is that teams never come out and say, ‘We’re going to move if you don’t do this for us.’ Fans get angry when you do that,” said Neil deMause, co-author of “Field of Schemes: How the Great Stadium Swindle Turns Public Money Into Private Profit.’‘
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The Isles should move to Brooklyn. The Nets need money to help move their project along, and will have a new stadium to move into. Either that or the Isles should try to convince the Nets to join them in Uniondale to create more bargaining power with the Nassau County government
Posted by bsalamon on 01/20/09 at 03:30 PM ET