Islanders Finally See the End of the Road

The team will play its first game at its new home, UBS Arena, on Saturday against Calgary, nearly six weeks after the N.H.L. season began.

The N.H.L. season has been underway for more than a month, and the Islanders have had more time in a Chicago restaurant than they did on their home ice. They spent more minutes in the penalty box in Winnipeg than they have in the locker room of their own arena.

They have skated in 11 cities, four time zones and two countries, flown in every direction on the compass and billeted in almost a dozen hotels across the continent. They have done all that, and they still haven’t played at home.

And it is not over.