The Islanders don’t expect to lose any home-ice advantage when the postseason party moves to Brooklyn for the second round.
It’ll just be a railgating crowd at Barclays Center instead of the tailgating done at NYCB Live’s Nassau Coliseum.
“Instead of being in the parking lot, they’ll be on the train,” Islanders coach Barry Trotz said.
There’s no denying the special aura the Coliseum had during the Islanders’ two home games in their first-round sweep of the Penguins, or in past playoff games at the venerable barn.
But it would also be revisionist history not to acknowledge that the postseason crowds at Barclays Center, where the team will play all subsequent home playoff games, were also electric in 2016.