As Islanders players and fans looked to a relaxing Thursday night after Wednesday’s exhausting overtime thriller against the Penguins, the team’s lead TV play-by-play voice was preparing to get right back at it.
Brendan Burke called Game 1 of Penguins-Islanders for MSG Plus on Wednesday and was to call Game 2 of Hurricanes-Capitals in Washington on USA Network on Thursday, then go back to Long Island for Game 2 on Friday, then back to Washington for Game 2 there on Saturday.
Because Sunday’s Islanders-Penguins Game 3 is an NBC exclusive and thus not on MSG, that will be a travel day for Burke ahead of Game 3 in Raleigh on Monday.