The New York Islanders and the Tampa Bay Lightning warm-up prior to Game Three of the Eastern Conference Final during the 2020 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs at Rogers Place on September 11, 2020 in Edmonton. Credit: Getty Images/Bruce Bennett
Many Islanders fans got what they wanted from NBC when it assigned its lead hockey play-by-play man, Mike "Doc" Emrick, to the Eastern Conference finals starting with Game 4 on Sunday.
But adding Emrick also provided a the logistical challenge compared with the first three games when John Forslund called games with analysts Ed Olczyk and Brian Boucher, all of whom were on site in the Edmonton "bubble.