The Uneasy Future of Islanders Hockey in Brooklyn - The Bridge
"The result: “a net loss from Islanders’ related business activities” in the last fiscal year, which Moody’s predicted would persist this season and next unless attendance picks up."
"Yormark recently
said of hockey in Brooklyn, “The economics just don’t work.” (Ledecky
retorted: “I guess he’s saying the people on their side didn’t make a good deal.”) In January, Bloomberg reported that Barclays was
“dumping” the Islanders, attributing that notion to “people familiar with the facility’s financials,” which may have been a tactical leak. "