Joel Farabee of the Flyers and Cal Clutterbuck of the Islanders battle for the puck during the second period in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference Semifinals during the 2020 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs at Scotiabank Arena on Wednesday in Toronto. Credit: Getty Images/Elsa
Instead of being played back-to-back, the Islanders and Flyers will now have days between Games 2 and 3.
Thursday night’s Game 3 of the second-round series was postponed as part of the NHL players opting to join their brethren in other professional sports in a boycott to protest social injustice in the wake of a Black man, Jacob Blake, being shot by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin.