Thirteen minutes into the first period, Artem Anisimov broke down ice and flipped a top-shelf backhander toward the Islanders’ net past goaltender Thomas Greiss. It was the first regular-season goal ever scored at Barclays Center. From Section 201, however, there was only the sight of Anisimov’s shot heading toward a black hole somewhere below.

Then silence. Then anger. The goal itself had been obscured by the Brooklyn building’s quirky, asymmetric architecture.

“You got to be kidding,” said Christopher Dabrowski, a Long Islander from Franklin Square, who had paid $125 for a seat that did not allow him to see the goal at his end of the building.

While it was true that Dabrowski had purchased a ticket featuring the explicit warning “Limited view,” he had not expected his view to be quite so limited. He could not be blamed for expecting more from an arena that bills itself as “one of the most intimate seating configurations ever designed.”