NEW YORK (AP) Pleased with the progress made during the New York Islanders' first season in Brooklyn, Brett Yormark is looking forward to the team's second year at Barclays Center.

"I thought we ended the year in a much better place than we started," said Brett Yormark, the Chief Executive Office for Brooklyn Sports and Entertainment, which oversees business operations and marketing for the Barclays Center. "When you look back at those playoff games they were some of the most dramatic moments we've had here."

Pointing to the improvements the arena made with game presentation, including the hiring of a hockey-centric group to take over game days, Yormark said the atmosphere during the Islanders' run to the Eastern Conference semifinals - and their first postseason series victory since 1993 - showed "hockey has arrived in Brooklyn."