Triumph was in the air when Jon Ledecky went to a press conference two days before UBS Arena was opened.
After years of failed attempts, threats of relocation and a disastrous movement to Brooklyn, the islanders were finally going to have a new building: a jewel of $ 1.1 billion, with a Long Island direction and a Stanley Cup contender to play in it.
Everything seemed to be falling in place.
The islanders had entered a goal with their hand with the first final of their first final of the Stanley Cup since 1984 less than six months before, and brought back to the same group for the 2021-22 season.