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Originally Posted by Jay Random
Seating for hockey at Barclays: 15,795, including 1,500 obstructed seats
Seating for hockey at Nassau: 16,170
Yes, the restricted view seats at Barclays mean something.
It also means something that all the angled seats face the scoreboard and not the rink. It's a terrible place to watch hockey.
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More importantly though:
Luxury suites in at Nassau: 32
Luxury suites at Barclays: 90
Lacking the will to build a proper new arena, the Islanders are stuck in a horrible catch-22. Nassau Coliseum was an absolute ####hole. The Isles needed a new arena far more badly than the Flames or Oilers do. What they got, however, wasn't much better.