Artie Torrey called it “the memory of a lifetime for us.”
He meant the ceremonial first puck he and his three brothers dropped at NYCB Live’s Nassau Coliseum on Saturday night, when the Islanders honored his late father, Bill, “The Architect” of their early 1980s dynasty.
But really, the memory of a lifetime was a lifetime ago, when the franchise Torrey built pretty much from scratch won four Stanley Cups, all while based at the Coliseum.
And this was one last time to pay tribute to Torrey, who died at 83 last May, three years after his coach, Al Arbour, died at 82.