The Islanders started their final season at Nassau Coliseum on Monday with a new name surrounding the familiar logo at center ice: Nassau Live Center.
Nassau Live Center is the name of the Coliseum's new leaseholder, which has taken over control of the county-owned building after Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov defaulted on rent and walked away from a $100 million loan.
When asked about the name Nassau Live Center on the ice, the leaseholder representative, Nicholas Mastroianni II, said in a statement the words won't be there for long. Instead, he said the ice will eventually read: "Nassau Live at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum.