NHL lockout Islanders Devils exhibition game at Barclays Center to be canceled

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What was supposed to be the first sporting event at the new Barclays Center in Brooklyn will now be one of the first cancellations as a result of the ongoing NHL lockout. The Antonio Brown Jersey  Oct. 2 exhibition game between the and according to Chris Botta of the Sports Busine s Journal.It will Jerome Bettis Jersey  be the first many cancellations to come as the NHL's owners and players continue to work on a new collective bargaining agreement. (And in case you're wondering, no "formal" talks are scheduled between the two sides at this time).Last month Barclays Center developer Bruce Ratner admitted that he was Vance McDonald Jersey  "trying like hell" to get the Islanders . The team currently plays its home games at the Na sau Coliseum on Long Island and has been trying to work out a deal for a new arena for years with little succe s to this point.Even though this exhibition game has been scrapped, the Anthony Chickillo Jersey  Barclays Center will still host hockey this season as a couple of KHL games will be held at the new arena. On Jan. 19 and 20 Dynamo Moscow will take on SKA  David DeCastro Jersey St. Petersburg in a pair of regular season games. If the lockout continues to roll on through January that game will feature a couple of notable NHL superstars with Alex Ovechkin playing for Dynamo, , and Ilya Kovalchuk representing SKA St. Petersburg.   .
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