Food For Thought: Islanders, Barclays Haggling Over Meal Price For Officials, Media

The Islanders and Barclays Center are already "haggling over a generally minor and silly monetary issue" -- the prices the team must pay the arena "to provide meals for NHL off-ice officials and purchasable ones for the media," according to Peter Botte of the N.Y. DAILY NEWS. It is "customary on game days for all professional teams to have meals available for purchase by the media and to provide team and NHL employees working the event with such." No such food or drinks "were made available before or during" last night’s preseason game against the Devils. An Islanders source "claimed the prices being charged by Barclays Center catering are 'exorbitant,' while an arena official countered that what the Islanders are being charged to provide food is 'industry standard'" (N.Y. DAILY NEWS, 9/24).