Jiggs McDonald will fill in for Brendan Burke on Wednesday night’s Kraken-Islanders game on MSG+, a source told Newsday.
McDonald, 83, was the Islanders’ primary TV play-by-play man for 15 seasons, including the last three of the team’s four Stanley Cups in the 1980s, and has filled in periodically over the years.
He last did so on Feb. 19, 2017, when Burke missed a game for the birth of his second child. McDonald will work with Burke’s regular partner, Butch Goring.
The Kraken game originally was scheduled for Saturday but was moved because of the weekend snowstorm.