BROOKLYN — As he strolled around the bowels of the Barclays Center Sunday evening, Bill Torrey and his trademark bow tie recognized the familiar orange-and-blue jerseys of the home team.
Other than that, he might as well have been in a foreign land.
As the alternate governor of the Florida Panthers, Torrey returned to the New York area for Game 3 of the first-round series against the New York Islanders, the franchise he built into four Stanley Cup winners in the early 1980s.
Sure, the Barclays Center is just a 40 kilometre drive from the Nassau Coliseum, the long-time home of the Islanders.