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What Options Do the Islanders Have?
by Alanah McGinley on 07/29/11 at 02:33 PM ET
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Monday is voting day to decide the future of the NYI, but will the team really leave if citizens vote against a new arena? From Tom Van Riper at Forbes:
But is it necessarily a case of build it or they will leave? Despite owner Charles Wang’s insistence that his outdated Nassau Coliseum isn’t a viable option going forward, what else does he do? Everyone talks about the Kansas City Sprint Center, which is dying for a full time sports tenant, but sports business experts doubt that the Islanders could duplicate their $15 million in annual cable money in that market, despite their second class standing in New York. Canada could be a possibility – fans of the old Quebec Nordiques have been rallying for an NHL return- but any arena plan there is still a long way off.
“There just aren’t many markets that covet the NHL right now,” says Robert Boland, who teaches sports business at the Tisch Center at New York University.
Craig Custance of Sporting News also comments today on the stakes of Monday’s vote in this article.
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The Islanders will go to Brooklyn, the Barcley Center could always use another tenant and Prokhorov has bundles of money. Prokhorov owns 45% of the Barcley Center, so it’s to his advantage to have as many tenants as possible.
Posted by RogerNYLA on 07/29/11 at 04:51 PM ET
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The lease at Nassau runs until 2015. Quebec has time if they want to woo the Islanders.
Posted by J.J. from Kansas on 07/29/11 at 03:39 PM ET