Those were "the olden days, the glory years, " as Connolly called them, and if fans waited long enough, the best players from the Islanders' Stanley Cup-winning teams of the early 1980s Mike Bossy, Bryan Trottier, Denis Potvin, Clark Gillies would walk right out the Coliseum's front door and stop to sign autographs and pose for photos.

WSJ: Revisiting a Dark Time on the Island