The Islanders are three months from their regular-season opener at Barclays Center, against the reigning Stanley Cup champions, the Chicago Blackhawks. Their first preseason game in Brooklyn is Sept. 21. And there still seems to be plenty of work to do before the team can call their new rink a home.
Water dripped from high above the ice on at least one row of the makeshift press area Wednesday, and the 10,000-square-foot space that will include the new locker room for the Islanders, who announced in October 2012 that they would begin playing in Brooklyn in the 2015-16 season, remains at least a month from completion.