Delmar executive Frank Bellow, Isles' season-ticket holder. Credit: Frank Bellow
Frank Bello grew up an Islanders fan on Long Island, spending time at Nassau Coliseum during the Stanley Cup era in the 1980s and being among the delirious crowd for the last NHL game at the venerable barn in June, a 3-2 overtime win over the Lightning in Game 6 of the NHL semifinals.
And now that the Islanders have opened their long-awaited UBS Arena, the 58-year-old former Marine from Garden City is seeing his professional life and his fandom intersect. It’s actually in plain sight every time Bello, the president of Delmar International USA and a season-ticket holder, glances at the Islanders’ logo at center ice.