The NHL announced a swath of schedule updates today, rearranging and slotting in almost 100 games to complete every team’s 82-game regular season. The Tetris-ing of nearly half a season’s worth of games must have been a monumental task, but getting three weeks to work with that would have normally gone to the Olympic Break opened up a bunch of possibilities.
The big hole the Islanders would have had in February now features a Western Canada swing, two Original Six home dates, and then a West Coast trip that includes their long-awaited (by someone, surely) trip to the Emerald City.