At this point, being flexible with scheduling is coming second nature to the Islanders.
They’ll have to be with this short turnaround before their Eastern Conference finals against the Lightning opens in Edmonton on Monday at 8 p.m.
The Islanders, who defeated the Flyers, 4-0, in Game 7 of their second-round series on Saturday night at Scotiabank Arena, will depart their Toronto bubble on Sunday and fly across Canada. That leaves little practice time before Monday’s Game 1 while the Lightning have not played since eliminating the Bruins on Aug. 31.
“There have been a couple of times we had to wait until 10 o’clock at night to find out a practice time, the way the games are,” Islanders coach Barry Trotz said.