There is no reason to panic about the process that is predictably dragging through the political sphere as the Islanders try to develop a new arena at Belmont Park.
“Everything is moving forward on schedule,” owner Jon Ledecky told The Post during his team’s 5-2 loss to the Flyers at the Coliseum on Saturday night.
That means the club is still planning on playing there for the start of the 2021-22 season, which has been the plan all along. The fact is that there is an undercurrent of anxiety among the fan base, the members of which have been beaten and battered for just about two decades, and that sense of dread has been transferred to this new arena project, which was awarded to the Islanders development group in December 2017.