Islanders welcome family of late Connor Kasin with unbelievable experience

It was an absolute power play.A 12-year-old Long Island hockey player who lost his varsity star brother to a rare heart condition was given the day of a lifetime by the Islanders, as he skated to center ice ahead of Saturday’s 3-0 loss against the Senators. “I was really nervous at first,” Massapequa’s Cole Kasin admitted to The Post after fist-bumping Bo Horvat on the blue line during the national anthem.“Then I got out there, and it was crazy,” added the passionate little Isles fan with blue and orange braces.Cole’s older brother, Connor Kasin, was a 17-year-old Chiefs defenseman and fellow Isles fanatic, known as a hard-hitting yet overly kind teen whose 2024 death rocked the hockey world. “He would have been so jealous,” Cole said of cruising the frozen surface at UBS Arena.Connor passed away during the intermission of a charity game due to an obscure case of arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy. The cause of his undetected abnormal heartbeat never showed up in a physical. Kasin’s family responded by turning pain into purpose and launched a foundation in Connor’s name.A major goal is to make potentially life-saving EKGs standard in scholastic sports to prevent families from suffering similar tragedies.A February pilot program to screen all of Massapequa’s hockey players was so successful that the entire school, not just its athletes, will receive EKG exams May 16 due to popular demand from parents.Along with Cole’s special skate with the big shots — he takes after his brother, playing defense for Massapequa’s middle school team — 50/50 raffle proceeds went to the Connor Kasin Memorial Foundation to continue its nationwide work.Seeing the Islanders and Chiefs team up would have been a dream come true for Connor. “He was always wearing Islanders stuff. If it wasn’t Chiefs stuff, it was Islander stuff,” said Bobby Foran, a close friend of Connor and a foundation member helping collect donations.

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