With modern new digs and a young, rising team, the Islanders’ future is looking brighter. (Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)

By Allan Muir

A report this morning from IslandersPointBlank suggests the team is looking to expedite its departure from Long Island a year sooner than originally announced.

The team is slated to debut at Brooklyn’s new Barclays Center at the start of the 2015-16 season, but the site quoted a source who said both Nassau County and the Isles are open to the idea of a “financial arrangement” that would see the team move to Brooklyn after the end of next season.

The source said there’s “no chance” the team could move any sooner, noting “there’s too much work to be done” before the transition is feasible…at least on a full-time basis.

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With a large loan payment due next year, Islanders owner Charles Wang is reportedly trying to sell the team. (AP)

By Allan Muir

So apparently Charles Wang isn’t exactly a Brooklyn kind of guy.

Just months after sealing a deal that would see the New York Islanders move to the posh new Barclays Center in the hipster borough, Wang is looking to sell the team according to a report by Josh Kosman in The New York Post.

From the story:

Owner Charles Wang has been in talks with The Raine Group, a Manhattan investment bank, regarding the sale of the money-losing team, two sources said.

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