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Fans in Kansas City show little interest in Isles

Jim Baumbach

Newsday columnist Jim Baumbach

Jim Baumbach, formerly Newsday's Yankees beat reporter, is now a

KANSAS CITY, Mo.

The Islanders came here hoping to be barreled over with support from a city supposedly desperate for its own NHL team. And how did the people of Kansas City react? With one huge, collective yawn.

The support for the preseason game against the Kings was so poor that every upper-deck section was blocked off by huge black curtains. You know, to block the many, many rows...

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