from Larry Brooks of the New York Post,

Even when landlocked, the Islanders remain the NHL’s — and our — shipwrecked franchise.

For here they are again, on the verge of being orphaned, looking for someplace they can truly call home with the folks at Barclays Center reaching the conclusion the team will no longer be welcome in their Brooklyn arena after 2018-19, as per a mutual escape clause in the lease.

Here they are again, but where are they are going to go now? Where is the new Scott Malkin-Jon Ledecky ownership group going to take this team while maintaining a five-boroughs zip code that was always a significant part of the very point of purchasing the once-dynastic franchise?

And for how long will this latest game of musical chairs last before the Islanders are left without one and the song playing is, “Aloutte,” performed in French by a chorus from Quebec City?

There has been no cry for ransom by this ownership group that has made it clear from the beginning a return to a remodeled (and subpar by NHL standards as applies to capacity and number of suites) Coliseum is not part of the plan.

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