In attending last night's latest Islander loss in overtime to the Toronto Maple Leafs, it suddenly dawned on me while I was sitting in Nassau Coliseum that the place is all used up. It's finished. Its time has passed. Granted, a winning franchise would make the place feel different, but the Islanders have not done that with any consistency at any point in the past 20 years.
Some people will say that winning will solve all of the problems and make the place happening again. Guess what? It won't. The New York Yankees drew horribly in the early 1990s until they started to win the World Series again. The thing is, no one in his or her right mind will ever compare the old Yankee Stadium to the Nassau Coliseum. Yankee Stadium, with all of its issues as an outdated facility had character. It was a venue that lived and breathed sports history in spite of its status as an outdated venue.
Despite the Islanders' success in the early 1980s, Nassau Coliseum has never had that aspect of being a sports mecca. It has never been a place steeped in hockey history. It was never maintained or presented as a top flight venue. It was always just ade ...
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