Hurricanes goalie Brandon Bussi, a Sound Beach product, bringing Stanley Cup to Long Island next week

Brandon Bussi hasn’t attended any of his teammates’ days with the Stanley Cup because of his hectic offseason. He got married in mid-July, honeymooned in Greece and now is training six hours a day for the upcoming season with a clearer path to being the Hurricanes’ No. 1 goalie.

But the Sound Beach product has exchanged texts with his teammates and seen the pictures, making his anticipation for his day with the Cup on Long Island this Wednesday even greater.

That will include two events open to the public — come take a picture with the trophy — at The Rinx in Hauppauge at 10:30 a.m. and at Bracco’s Clam & Oyster Bar in Freeport at 6 p.m.

“It’s been really fun to see them all and see our guys talking about them,” Bussi told Newsday in a telephone conversation. “Text with a person and be like, ‘When’s your day with the Cup?’ It’s been awesome to see what everyone’s done. I look at them and I pick and choose. We got one guy, he’s on the stage at a concert. Another person is at an ice cream shop eating ice cream out of it. It just proves there’s no game plan or exact recipe with your day with the Cup. You just do what you want, which is exciting.”

Bussi and his agent, John Osei-Tutu, both told Newsday that having public events to share the moment with the Long Island community is highly important, but so is private time with family and friends.

Between the two public events, there will be a chartered boat trip through The Captain Lou Fleet in Freeport for about 80 people and, before that, a family party in Farmingdale. That will include Bussi’s younger brother, Dylan, who lives in a group home on Long Island. He is on the autism spectrum and is non-verbal.

Brandon Bussi’s mask — both his old one for last season and the new one for this season — has a nod to autism awareness.

“He’s going to have a lot of excitement, too,” Bussi said of his brother. “I have all these feelings about how this day is going to go, and it’s hard to say until it actually happens, all those feelings and what emotions pour out at different points. It will hit me and my family.”

Others, too.

Michael Hagens of Hauppauge -- the father of James Hagens, drafted seventh overall by the Bruins in 2025, and Michael Hagens, who attended the Islanders’ prospect development camp this summer and has transferred from Boston College to Vermont for his junior season -- will be joining the moving Cup party at some point on Wednesday, as will his namesake son.

The elder Hagens has known Bussi since his sons and the goalie were skating at Superior Ice Rink in Kings Park.

“It’s really special,” he told Newsday. “It’s hard enough to make it to the USHL or Division I college hockey from Long Island. But to be able to win a Cup and bring it back, it almost defies all odds. But it’s also a nice reminder of how far hockey has come on Long Island.

“For a Suffolk County kid, to see him lift that Cup and bring it home, it means the world to us.”

Bussi is the second player from Long Island to win the Cup after Rob Scuderi, who grew up in Bethpage. Scuderi, now 47, was on two Cup-winning teams, the Penguins in 2009 and the Kings in 2012.

“The most important thing to Brandon was to be able to celebrate with the Long Island hockey community,” Osei-Tutu told Newsday. “With the people that are from the place that he’s from and grew up playing in the youth organizations that he grew up in. He wants to inspire the next wave of kids.”

Bussi, 28, went 31-6-2 with a 2.44 goals-against average and an .895 save percentage in his first NHL season after four seasons with the Bruins’ AHL affiliate and agreed to a three-year, $5.7 million extension on Feb. 16.  With goalie  Frederik Andersen out with a knee injury, Bussi started the final three games of the Hurricanes’ six-game win over Vegas in the Stanley Cup Final.

Andersen has since signed a one-year, $1 million deal with the Oilers.

Bussi is expected to be joined at Bracco’s by some Long Island celebrities and other NHL players.

At The Rinx, among the honors will be Suffolk County Executive Edward P. Romaine declaring Wednesday “Brandon Bussi Day.”

“That’s going to be a very cool moment,” said Bussi, who is spending the offseason in Boston training with Boston University goalie coach Cam Doomany, one of his longtime mentors along with his father, Robert, and Osei-Tutu. “I don’t necessarily feel like a person who deserves that, and it’s super-honoring. I have now a bit of a platform where I can influence people’s lives in a positive way, and that’s really cool. The fact that Suffolk County would give me that honor is special and something I would have never expected to happen.”