Doc Emrick, Pierre McGuire and Ed Olczyk fond of Nassau Coliseum's history

Doc Emrick, Ed Olczyk and Pierre McGuire of NBC's No. 1 hockey broadcasting team appeared on a conference call Wednesday to preview the 2014-15 season.

Among the topics discussed was the Islanders' final season at Nassau Coliseum.

Here is a transcript NBC provided of the question and answers:

NEWSDAY: My provincial question for any of you guys that want to tackle it or have something interesting to say about it, everyone in the world knew that it was time for the Islanders to get a new building and Nassau Coliseum is no longer viable, however, will it be a little bit sad/nostalgic watching that franchise play the last season in that building this year?

DOC EMRICK: For us old-timers it will be. I'm not sure if there's a generation that has come along in the last 10 years or so that has the same kind of memories that those who were there for not only the championship teams but some of the years after when they were so strong will have that same tie-in. It's difficult to know when you win something in your own arena, it doesn't really have life until you've won something in it, and they won something pretty early. It wasn't even 10 years old when they won a championship.

But now it's been so long since they've really been a strong team. They did have that one series with Pittsburgh, but it's been quite a long time, so I'm not sure how the younger generation will feel about it. They may be more excited to make the trip.

I'd hate to conjecture that, but I know as an old-timer, I will miss the place.

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NEWSDAY: A couple other old-timers on the call. What do you guys think?

EDDIE OLCZYK: Yeah, you know, I mean, look, I think from a visiting player -- again, I played in an era where it was pretty fresh what the Islanders had just done. I was only 13 years old, 14 years old when the Islanders were in the middle of their heyday, and all those runs, so to go in there as a young guy and to go in there all those years after, look, as a visiting player, the convenience aspect of it with the hotel right across the parking lot, the walk across the parking lot, get over to the game, do what you're supposed to do and get out of town, I mean, you have memories, and look, I played in that rivalry with the Rangers and Islanders rivalry for a couple years, so to me along the lines of Doc, I look at it from the aspect of it's tough.

It's hard to see the past go away like that, but I think Doc said it perfectly, that that's probably a generation or two back that really was kind of living in the glory days.

PIERRE McGUIRE: What I'll miss is going in there early and having coffee with the great Al Arbour and all the different stories Al would tell about his playing days, about his coaching days, about working with somebody that we both worked with, Scotty Bowman. That was one of the real highlights early on in my coaching career, spent a lot of time around Al Arbour. We seemingly played the Islanders a ton when I was in Pittsburgh and when I was in Hartford, and just the respect for Al as a man and as a coach.

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I remember doing Game 6 of Pittsburgh and the Islanders a couple years ago, and Brooks Orpik got the series-winning goal, and looking up, the crowd was unbelievably crazed and it was great, but you look at still all the names up there, the banners, whether it be Billy Smith or whether it be Bowtie Bill Torrey or whether it be Al Arbour, Bryan Trottier, Denny Potvin, you look at all the great players that played there over time, and that's the building they called home.

It's a phenomenal place. It's a great hockey building. Unfortunately it's no longer after this year. But I can tell you that I have unbelievable memories there, and a lot of it is because of Al Arbour and some of the wisdom that he passed on to me over time.

DOC EMRICK: The last thing from me is that people don't want to know necessarily any working problems that you have. There was never a problem working at Long Island because you were up high and you were close, and those were the two things we liked the best.