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BROOKLYN, N.Y. — This isn’t Uniondale.

The quirky Barclays Center in a transitioning new district near the Brooklyn Bridge isn’t the venerable old rickety Nassau County Coliseum on Long Island.

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As much as the Islanders are temporarily housed in an odd-shaped, Rubik’s Cube home built for basketball and not hockey — and are far removed from the glory days on Long Island — one adage holds true for anyone who played for the late great bench boss Al Arbour:

You can take team out of Uniondale but you can’t take Uniondale out of the player.

Travis Green not only played six seasons with the Islanders, he finally broke into the National Hockey league in 1992-93 after three seasons in the minors. The hotshot junior centre quickly learned that Arbour would break his bad habits and push him far enough to almost break his spirit.

Arbour was as blunt as a stick to the face. He also knew when encouragement was more important than outrage. It’s how the Islanders won four-consecutive Stanley Cup titles from 1980 to 1983.