The Islanders leave the ice after their 4-1 defeat to the Tampa Bay Lightning in Game Four of the Eastern Conference Final during the 2020 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs at Rogers Place on September 13, 2020 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Credit: Getty Images/Bruce Bennett
You know what Monday likely would have meant for the Islanders in normal times?
Two words: training camp.
Yup, in a non-COVID-19 world, camp would have opened this very week, which is a sobering thought. (I last covered a hockey camp with the Rangers in Glens Falls in 1991. It was not exciting.