Chris King was not sure what was wrong when he felt tightness in his chest on Thursday morning, but he was sure about not taking any chances, not after both his father and his father’s father died of heart attacks.
So the Islanders’ radio play-by-play man went to the emergency room at Good Samaritan Hospital in West Islip for a series of tests, all of which provided good news.
One problem: He was advised to stay for another round of tests, six hours later. “That’s when I realized I wasn’t going to make the game [against the Devils in Newark],” he said.