Both the Islanders and Lightning are getting used to their new surroundings in the Edmonton bubble.
The teams open the Eastern Conference finals on Monday night at Rogers Place after six weeks in the Toronto bubble. The Lightning departed Toronto on Saturday and the Islanders traveled on Sunday.
“Yeah, I think so,” captain Anders Lee said on Sunday when asked if it would be a nice change. “It felt like that a little bit when we changed hotels for the second round. Edmonton was a huge goal of ours to get to do what we want to do.