The New York Islanders’ last game at Nassau Coliseum ended up being their Game 6 win over the Washington Capitals in the first round of the Eastern Conference playoffs.

Alas, they lost in Game 7, depriving us of another round of games at Nassau Coliseum … and, well, the chance that the hated New York Rangers might have been the ones to close it out....

Bruce Bennett of Getty Images captured these fantastic, depressing and fantastically depressing images of the ice being demolished at Nassau.

“Not too many teams enjoyed coming here (to the Coliseum). We want to bring that same kind of feel to next season. They don’t want to make Brooklyn a quiet building. They’re going to be loud, going to be rambunctious to break in the new digs. When you create an atmosphere like we had this year, and reestablish some great hockey, we want to build on that.’’