The Islanders’ new goal horn will sound very, very familiar to millions of New Yorkers. The team’s new arena, the Barclays Center, debuted the new horn – which sounds exactly like the high-pitched ...

Detroit — This is what it looks like when a wagon gets rolling. And in case you’d forgotten — you’d be forgiven if you did, because it has been a while — this is what it sounds like, too, with the ...

Fans of the New York Islanders are always happy to see the home team score a goal. Listening to the obnoxious horn that follows, however? Well, that's hardly music to their ears. The sound in question ...

SEATTLE – With seconds ticking away in the Kraken’s first period of play on home ice, Vince Dunn collected a puck, handled it for a moment and flicked it toward the net. In a half-blink, it snapped ...

A hockey goal is so unlike scoring in any other major American sport. It doesn’t happen nearly as frequently as in basketball, or with the gradual march down the field in football. Even a home run ...

The fan reaction wasn't music to the ears of the New York Islanders' brass when the team unveiled its new goal horn earlier this week. After three-plus days of critical comments flooding social media, ...

Welcome, readers of The Athletic, to the first of many every-so-often mailbags I intend to write in the coming months and years and millennia. You all submitted scores of questions, and I'll get to as ...

The New York Islanders debut in Brooklyn this season, and they’re bringing along some comforts from the Nassau Coliseum. The old organ. The old organist. The PA announcer. A group of legendary players ...

ST. LOUIS — By first grade, most kids can recite alphabet from memory. But 6-year-old St. Louisan Sam DeMerit can do all those kids one better. He has memorized the distinct sound to every single NHL ...

When the New York Islanders scored the only goal of a 3-1 exhibition loss against the Washington Capitals, it marked the debut of Barclays Center’s new goal horn. The shrill horn was immediately met ...