The Islanders have continued to make tremendous strides as a franchise the past three years, and now they might finally be getting rewarded for it with the national spotlight.
The NHL released its 2021-22 regular season schedule yesterday along with all of its 32 teams. Strolling through the Isles’ slate of games, there was something that was different about their slate of home dates for their inaugural season at UBS Arena — they are scheduled to play eight Sunday games.
This caught my eye. The reason being for the last 16 years, it was that day of the week that the league and NBC, NBCSN would have its so-called “Game of the Week”.