{"id":40017,"date":"2015-04-11T21:58:24","date_gmt":"2015-04-11T21:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=40017"},"modified":"2015-04-12T22:07:09","modified_gmt":"2015-04-12T22:07:09","slug":"the-last-regular-season-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=40017","title":{"rendered":"The last regular season game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the season started, I had hoped that they make the playoffs or better yet, win their fifth Stanley Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The Islanders played their last game tonight vs Blue Jacket: 4-4, and yes they made the\u00a0playoff. It&#8217;s bitter sweet. I felt sad. They&#8217;re moving to Brooklyn next season, leaving Long Island without a sport team. My gut feeling is, they&#8217;ll do well there and with Long Island&#8217;s fans to the boot. The owner Charles Wang would have a longer commute &#8211; he was in talk to sell the team (or the majority stake) last year according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lighthousehockey.com\/2014\/3\/28\/5556486\/charles-wang-selling-new-york-islanders-majority-stake\">Lighthouse Ice hockey<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The game started at 7 but by early afternoon the parking lot was full of tailgaters. Our neighbor who&#8217;s season ticket holder was so excited, that he pushed up an hour to leave: it&#8217;s planned at 3 but left at 2pm. The picture of the very first game of the team in 1972.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/image3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-40019\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/image3-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/image4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-40020\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/image4-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/image4-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/image4-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/image4-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/image4.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/image5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-40021\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/image5-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the season started, I had hoped that they make the playoffs or better yet, win their fifth Stanley Cup. The Islanders played their last game tonight vs Blue Jacket: 4-4, and yes they made the\u00a0playoff. It&#8217;s bitter sweet. I felt sad. They&#8217;re moving to Brooklyn next season, leaving Long Island without a sport team. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ice-hockey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}