Islanders moving to Brooklyn

The NHL’s New York Islanders are moving to Brooklyn in 2015, according to various reports.

The NHL’s New York Islanders will be moving to Brooklyn in 2015, according to various reports.

NHL commissioner Gary Bettman and team owner Charles Wang are scheduled to appear at a press conference at the new Barclays Center this afternoon, where they are expected to announce the Isles will move upon the expiry of their lease at the dilapidated Nassau Coliseum.

The New York Post is reporting that the team will keep the “Islanders” name in its new home. Brooklyn is on Long Island.

More to come…

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Born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Citizen sports editor James Gordon watched the original NHL Jets play their last game on his 15th birthday and returned 15 years later to chronicle one of the reincarnated franchise’s games against the Ottawa Senators. Prior to joining the Citizen’s sports section as a hockey writer and online editor during Senators’ 2007 Stanley Cup final run, he spent several years on Parliament Hill covering national security, terrorism and access to information issues. The Carleton University grad’s journalism career began with a summer job as a business reporter with Dow Jones Newswires in Toronto, but he soon returned to Ottawa to join the Citizen. James was appointed sports editor in March 2012. View all posts by James Gordon →