ISLANDERS RETURN TO NASSAU SHOWING A COMMITMENT TO FANS

          Islanders President David Seldin said that the team
     would move its corporate offices back to the Nassau Coliseum
     "within the next two weeks," according to Thomas Frank of
     NEWSDAY.  The announcement came on Thursday, one day "after
     the team attracted an estimated 3,000 fans to the 16,297-
     seat Coliseum."  But Islanders Dir of Media Relations Chris
     Botta said that attendance "was not a factor in the
     decision."  Seldin: "It's a gesture to our fans, and to help
     us improve our quality of service" (NEWSDAY, 10/23).  
          BANKRUPTCY GUIDELINES: In Pittsburgh, Dejan Kovacevic
     wrote that the Penguins' legal advice in declaring for
     Chapter 11 was that the NHL "would be powerless to take any
     action once bankruptcy had been declared," and that the
     league's "bark in August was far worse than any potential
     bite."  The NHL "strongly refutes that contention" and
     "insists that Commissioner Gary Bettman could have taken
     over the franchise had he so chosen" (POST-GAZETTE, 10/25).