BOSTON — Marshall Warren’s father, Lewis, got a gift out of his dreams for his birthday on Tuesday.
For the first time since Marshall was called up to the Islanders last week, Lewis got to watch him take the ice for the team he rooted for as a kid growing up in Long Island’s Laurel Hollow, when the Islanders faced the Bruins at TD Garden.
“Hopefully that gives some good luck,” Warren told The Post before the game. “You never know. It’s cool, it’s kinda surreal. Everything happened so fast.”
It’s normal for anyone in Warren’s position to feel in the middle of a whirlwind, but the 24-year-old’s ascension to the NHL truly did come out of nowhere. At the onset of training camp, Warren — who signed with the Islanders as a free agent in 2024 after the Wild, who drafted him in 2019, allowed his rights to lapse, having — was not seen as a potential NHLer.
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
