It’ll be the Capitals or the Bruins.
The Islanders will find out Sunday which of the Eastern Conference’s two division winners they’ll meet in the first round of the NHL playoffs. The teams play Sunday at noon at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto and the Islanders will face the winner in a best-of-seven series.
The top four teams in each conference are concluding a round-robin concurrent to the best-of-five qualifying series to determine seeding. The Islanders, who eliminated the Panthers with a 5-1 win in Friday’s Game 4, slid up to the sixth seed with the 12th-seeded Canadiens upsetting the fifth-seeded Penguins.