Tavares to lead Brooklyn’s new Ice Age
Islanders Captain To Be the Face of Borough’s Pro Sports Scene
Former Brooklyn Eagle editor Walt Whitman was writing about the death of Abraham Lincoln in his epic poem, “Oh Captain! My Captain!” back in 1865, not the arrival of our borough’s pro sports savior.
But Brooklyn hockey fanatics may be shouting those very words from the rafters of the Barclays Center come next month.
Brooklyn will finally have a superstar captain to call its very own when John Tavares and the New York Islanders move into their Downtown digs on the corner of Atlantic and Flatbush avenues.