By his count, four or five of Alan Quine’s buddies from the Ottawa suburb of Orléans (accent over the “e”) are planning to come down Sunday night for Game 6 of the Islanders’ Stanley Cup playoff series. If they make it, they might get to see something that last happened before they were born.
The Islanders have a chance to wrap up a playoff series at home since Game 6 against the Capitals in 1993. They come in with a full head of steam against the Panthers because Quine, a 23-year-old who was in the minors exactly two weeks earlier, scored at 16:00 of the second overtime Friday to give the Islanders a 3-2 lead.