Miracle on Ices Ken Morrow willalways have second home in Northport, LI

One day, Islanders great and Miracle on Ice member Ken Morrow was going for a leisurely drive in Huntington Village when a pair of police officers suddenly pulled him over.“When they came up, I didn’t know why.I didn’t think I’d been speeding or anything,” Morrow told The Post.“And their first words to me were, ‘I thought that was the Stanley Cup in the back of your car.’ With their lights going, they stood at my back window looking at the Stanley Cup and reading the names.”It became one of the many memorable moments for longtime Northport resident Morrow, who won Lord Stanley’s hardware four straight times with the Isles — the first coming mere months after defeating the USSR juggernaut in Lake Placid.In the Michigan native’s words, it didn’t take long to become a bona fide everyday Long Islander.“You were just part of the local community, and you didn’t get mobbed or anything like that,” said Morrow, who now calls Kansas City home as director of pro scouting in the Islanders organization.Still, the defenseman who fell in love with local beaches and drives on the scenic North Shore would “get a couple of people that would come up and knock on the door” occasionally.“I remember one time, we had a school bus driver pull in our driveway, and we were trying to figure out what the heck was going on until he came up to the door,” he recalled.“I struck up a lot of conversations with people.

It certainly didn’t bother me at all that people wanted to do that.”Now, nearly 45 years to that fateful day of May 24, 1980, when Morrow and the team celebrated their first Cup win in overtime of Game 6 against the Flyers, he remembers it all like it was yesterday.“When Bobby Nystrom scored, I think the feeling was relief as much as it was joy,” Morrow said, adding that even climbing stairs became challenging when the Stanley Cup Final rolled around.The Olympic gold medalist, now 68, returned to the island two summers ago and recoun...