The last time a playoff game was held at the Coliseum, on April 25, 2015, Islanders head coach Barry Trotz was behind the Capitals' bench, where he watched his team lose in Game 6 of a first-round series.
Players make dramatic comebacks and revisit past glories. Coaches do it. Teams do it. Such narratives have been part of sports forever.
This is a rarer trick: A return from obscurity to center stage by a building.