Exclusive | Inside how two Islanders teammates are helping Victor Eklunds transition to NHL life: Personal Uber drivers

Victor Eklund has no need for Uber. The 19-year-old Swede still doesn’t have a car, or a U.S.driver’s license, though there are plans in the works for both.

What he does have are Emil Heineman and Simon Holmstrom. “We’ve been his personal Uber drivers since he got here,” Holmstrom told The Post after Tuesday’s practice. “And, I don’t know, he likes to take his time when we’re trying to pick him up,” Heineman added. The two other Swedes on the Islanders roster, both 25, have done plenty more than that in helping Eklund with all the off-the-ice challenges of living in a new place, in a new country, on his own for the first time. Eklund does have others in his support system.His family has made trips, and his best friend from home is here right now to help him move into an apartment.

Naturally, it’s in the same complex as Holmstrom and Heineman, with lots of “borrowed” furniture. “It looks like a mix of our old apartments, it’s pretty funny,” Heineman said.“We got some new stuff and he got our old couch and Simon’s bed or something.

He got a lot of stuff from our places.” “I try to steal as much as I can,” Eklund said, regarding furniture.“I have a bed coming soon, so yeah, it’s nice.” Of course, Eklund — who didn’t know whether he would make the team in camp, or stay in the NHL once he did make it — had no plans to live on Long Island this year.

Even if the thought had crossed his mind, he would have studiously avoided any implication that he was entitled to a spot.So he lived in a hotel. Now, having crossed the 10-game threshold at which he burns a year of his contract — and having played well enough that it’s not realistic to believe he’d be sent down anytime soon — that era is at an end. The way Eklund has stood out on the ice, with a motor and battle level that makes him a factor on every shift, it’s hard to believe he’ll ever play AHL hockey again.

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