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Marshall Warren’s call-up felt less like a transaction and more like a full-circle moment — the kind of moment that proves dreams can come true, and that sometimes reality grows into something bigger than the dream itself.
The 24-year-old defenseman, who will make his NHL debut this afternoon in Philadelphia, wasn’t just summoned to the NHL — he was summoned back into the building where he once stood as a boy in an oversized Islanders helmet, skating at IceWorks and looking up at players he is now sharing a locker room with. You can dream of playing in the NHL, he said, but you cannot script the part where you do it wearing the sweater of the team you grew up idolizing.
Isles fans dreamed of Long Island’s own James Hagens becoming the childhood fan, turned Islander. Instead, it’s Warren who gets to live out that reality.
