{"id":58486,"date":"2020-09-02T02:04:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T23:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/islanders-have-grown-fully-accustomed-to-nhl-bubble-oddities\/"},"modified":"2020-09-02T02:04:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T23:04:00","slug":"islanders-have-grown-fully-accustomed-to-nhl-bubble-oddities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/islanders-have-grown-fully-accustomed-to-nhl-bubble-oddities\/","title":{"rendered":"#Islanders have grown fully accustomed to NHL bubble oddities"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Islanders have grown fully accustomed to NHL bubble oddities<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n They\u2019ve become accustomed to it now, and why wouldn\u2019t the Islanders after having played 13 game<\/a>s under the antiseptic bubble in Toronto before taking the ice for Tuesday\u2019s potential elimination Game 5 of the second round against the Flyers?<\/p>\n

No fans?<\/p>\n

No atmosphere?<\/p>\n

Anders Lee almost doesn\u2019t notice anymore.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is our new normal a little bit,\u201d the captain said via Zoom, hours before the match. \u201cI think the first few games, for sure, were an adjustment, even the sightlines and stuff like that. But I think everyone went through that and now I guess we\u2019re pretty used to it.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery game feels more and more like, you know, the one before it and that normal. You just get used to it really.\u201d<\/p>\n

One more victory would guarantee a ticket out of the Eastern bubble, with both conference finals scheduled to be played under the western bubble in Edmonton. So there will be bus rides and a flight if the Islanders can close out the Flyers, though it is possible the Eastern finals will commence in Toronto before the cross-country trek, with the Lightning having received their invite to the final four by eliminating Boston in five on Monday.<\/p>\n

(The NHL has wanted to accelerate the schedule to limit the amount of time in the bubble as much as possible. The less time, the less time for something to go wrong throughout an event in which essentially everything has gone right. That\u2019s why the league might start the Eastern finals before the Western semis conclude. Vegas was up on Vancouver 3-1 with Game 5 set for Tuesday, while Dallas held a 3-2 lead on Colorado before Game 6 on Wednesday.)<\/p>\n

Of course, there will also be bus rides and flights if the Islanders conspire to lose three straight to Philadelphia, but those roads will lead to home. Players have been away from their homes and their families for more than five weeks, they are itching to get back, but that can wait for, oh, nine more victories.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of us here miss our families, our kids, our wives at home, our support systems at home, our moms and dads,\u201d said Lee, whose wife, Grace, gave birth to the couple\u2019s first child, a girl named Ruby, in March. \u201cEveryone has been so strong for us, taking care of all the little things, day-to-day.<\/p>\n

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Anders Lee and the Islanders are one win away from the Eastern Conference Final.<\/span>NHLI via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThey give us the opportunity to be here in the bubble, chasing our dreams down and kind of managing everything from the kids to the house to all those things. Our support system has been phenomenal. I know as a group that we can\u2019t thank them enough for that.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re doing our best here to make our time away from our families worth it.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is impossible to measure the impact of the bubble on the outcomes of games or the tournament. Of the 17 series<\/a> that have been completed, including the eight qualifying-round matchups, only four teams won a game while facing elimination, and none more than one. Only one series has gone the distance. That was the best-of-five qualifier in which Columbus took out Toronto. Perhaps the strain became more than the trailing teams could bear, just like it became too much for Johnny Ringo when Doc Holliday showed up at that crossing.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is more of a mental strain in the bubble than normal,\u201d Barry Trotz said. \u201cIt\u2019s not normal. It\u2019s not normal. It\u2019s the reality of 2020 and I think we\u2019ve accepted that. So I think we\u2019re OK with it. We just focus on one game. Every round, we\u2019ve just focused on the next game.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ah, the games. Those, Trotz indicated, most certainly have been impacted by the atmosphere, or lack thereof, in which the matches have been played.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s very quiet. Very quiet,\u201d the coach said. \u201cHome-ice advantage is just the last change right now. It\u2019s not \u2026 some rinks are a little more intimidating, ours [at the Coliseum] being one of them.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe momentum, you can carry it a little longer. Your momentum and all that has to come from your bench. And it\u2019s a lot quieter. You watch it on TV and it sounds like it\u2019s loud but it\u2019s much quieter in the rink, actually.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe NHL has done an excellent job and for TV, it\u2019s outstanding,\u201d Trotz said. \u201cBut in the rink, you think about it, there are probably 80 or 90 people in an arena that has close to 20,000 capacity, so even walking down the hallways you don\u2019t see anybody and you feel you\u2019re in an empty building a lot just because of the enormous size of the venue.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo all your motivation and all your focus comes from one thing, and that\u2019s the group that\u2019s in that room.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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