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Alan Quine: How a sixth-round re-pick graduated to NHL playoff baptismal fire

An untimely injury and an experiment with the three longest-serving Islanders creates a new dynamic.

Alan Quine's wasn't involved in the Thomas Hickey overtime goal that won Game 3 for the New York Islanders.

But Quine's linemate, Shane Prince, arrived first along with Josh Bailey to form the beginning of the pile to begin the best scene in sports: the celebration of a sudden death home playoff overtime goal. Prince had just come on for Nikolay Kulemin as the beginning of their line change, and Prince would've been next in place of Brock Nelson, who set up Hickey's goal.