Brandon Chabrier can hardly believe it, but he’s been skating at Northwell Health Ice Rink for longer than the Islanders have called it home.
Chabrier was at the facility, then called Twin Rinks Ice Center, on the day it opened in 2014 as an 11-year-old. The Islanders moved operations to the rink in 2016.
So, naturally, it was hard for Chabrier, a Bayville native, to wipe the ear-to-ear grin off his face as he stood by his new locker in the Islanders’ swanky dressing room at the East Meadow practice facility during Monday’s first day of development camp.
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Making the moment more special: Chabrier shared the ice with Ross Mitton and Marshall Warren, fellow Long Islanders and old teammates from Portledge School in Locust Valley.