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First the Nets, Now the Islanders?

NHL team may join the Brooklyn Nets at Barclays Center.

McCarton Ackerman, Neighbor
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Brooklyn will soon be getting a long-awaited professional basketball team when the Nets take the court at the Barclays Center, but a pro hockey team may also be in the cards as well.

According to Newsday, real estate developer Bruce Ratner and Nets CEO Brett Yomark met NHL league officials at their headquarters in Manhattan last week to express interest in bringing the New York Islanders to Brooklyn.

With the plans for a new arena in Nassau officially scrapped, the team will be without a stadium once their contract with Nassau Coliseum ends in 2015. 

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Barclays Center  and is expected to be complete by the start of the 2012-13 basketball season. 

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