Word: colliseum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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UNIONDALE, N.Y.--It was called Long Island's version of the Beanpot, and even though the crowd here last week at Nassau Colliseum never equalled the sellout crowds at Boston Garden, the Harvard men's hockey team finished last in the Long Island Collegiate Hockey Invitational...
UNIONDALE, L.I., N.Y.--Surly. Not amused. Impatience bordering on anger. December, 1979, the Nassau Veterans Memorial Colliseum. The New York Islanders, owners of the best record in the NHL the previous season, are floundering. They have lost to teams they should trash without sweating and, for the first time in five years, must struggle mightily for every point...
...long minutes afterwards, Colliseum fans sat stunned, unable and unwilling to believe their eyes. Last year provided the supreme indignity: in a hockey civil war replete with variable loyalties and immense sociological implications, the 33rd St. and 8th Ave. Rangers shocked the Islanders and plunged their fans into a funk that did not lift until very, very recently...
...absorbing, engrossing and insightful delineation of the fall and rise of the Islanders will appear here at a later date. For now, suffice it to say that, despite the overpriced programs, tickets and parking, the surliness has left Nassau Colliseum and the excitement, confidence and scalpers have returned. Business, they say, is good...