#Islanders’ Casey Cizikas a ‘game-time’ decision for Game 4

Casey Cizikas is no certainty to return to the Islanders’ lineup for Game 4 of the Eastern Conference finals.

The all-important center on the team’s Identity Line missed the Isles’ Game 3 win Friday against the Tampa Bay Lightning with an undisclosed injury.

“Sort of the same as [Friday], it’ll be sort of a game-time [decision], quite honestly,” Isles coach Barry Trotz said. “That’s where we’re at right now.”

Jean-Gabriel Pageau took Cizikas’ spot between Cal Clutterbuck and Matt Martin, and the line accounted for two goals, including Pageau’s game-sealing empty netter in the closing seconds.

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Tampa Bay will get suspended forward Alex Killorn back in the lineup Sunday, but coach Jon Cooper gave no update on leading postseason scorer Brayden Point, who also was scratched from Game 3 with an injury.

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Adam Pelech’s goal Friday gave the Isles six defensemen with at least one playoff goal in the same postseason for the first time in their history, including their four-peat Stanley Cup run in the 1980s.

“We try to activate our defense at the right time, whereas other teams have more of those types of players activating almost every shift,” Trotz said. “I think we’re probably a little more selective on that. But when they do, they’re all capable of contributing, that’s been a little bit of our philosophy.”

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Ilya Sorokin is ineligible to play after signing with the Isles in July out of the KHL, but the Russian goalie has been working out with the extras in the Toronto and Edmonton bubbles since the resumption of play this summer.

“Awesome. He’s a really hard-working guy,” forward Michael Dal Colle said of the 25-year-old Sorokin. “When he got here he didn’t really know anyone. But he’s really worked a lot off the ice, as well, working on his English. He’s adjusted really well. Works really hard in practice. That group, when we’re not playing, it’s been really intense, high-intensity practices.”