Islanders great Brent Sutter inducted into teams Hall of Fame

Al Arbour used to tell a young Brent Sutter not to play with a chip on his shoulder.The Islanders, who already had one Sutter among the team leaders in penalty minutes, did not need another doing the same.Arbour told Sutter he could be like Stan Mikita, the Blackhawks Hall of Fame centerman who’d regularly been among the league leaders in penalty minutes early in his career before cutting back and harnessing his full potential.“After that message was said and Brent accepted it, he became a complete player,” Duane Sutter told The Post by phone last week before flying to Long Island to watch his brother, Brent, be inducted into the Islanders Hall of Fame.

“Brent kind of pulled the reins in a little bit on that style of game and focused more on being a solid two-way player.”Brent Sutter, who was honored before Saturday’s 4-1 win against the Sharks and added into the Islanders’ newly minted Ring of Honor at UBS Arena, did more than become a solid two-way player.He was an integral part of two of the four Islanders’ Stanley Cup-winning teams, team captain from 1987-91 and a 100-point scorer in 1984-85.Brent and Duane Sutter are also one of just 10 sets of brothers to win the Stanley Cup together — a connection cherished by both.“When you’re a player, you take that for granted, right?” Brent Sutter said on a Zoom call after his induction was announced in November.“And you don’t realize until you’re done with the game how neat it was to play with a brother and to win a Stanley Cup [together].

And not just one year, but two years.”Sutter is the 16th player elected to the team’s Hall of Fame, and the first since the team moved from Nassau Coliseum.At age 62, he’s still working in hockey as the owner and general manager of the WHL’s Red Deer Rebels, and the Sutter family — five brothers made it to the NHL, with Darryl becoming a Stanley Cup-winning coach after his playing career — is hockey royalty.Upon the original announcement, he...