This might be the strangest entry in the bitter Islanders-Rangers rivalry.
The NHL on Tuesday released its schedule for exhibition games and the start times for the first three games of the best-of-five qualifying series under the league’s return-to-play format. The season was paused on March 12 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The New York rivals will play an exhibition game on July 29 at 8 p.m. at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, the hub city for the Eastern Conference as 12 teams will be in a quarantined arena/hotel bubble.
But that will be it for warmup games before the first elimination round begins.