Last night's win was exactly what Ilya Sorokin needed: a performance to serve as a reminder to himself and the fans that he still has every tool to be one of the NHL’s elite goaltenders.
The New York Rangers games hadn’t been kind to Sorokin in recent years. Coming into Saturday night, the New York Islanders netminder was 0-5-2 in his last seven starts against the Blueshirts and had managed only two wins in nine career head-to-head matchups with his friend and fellow countryman Igor Shesterkin.
But on Saturday night at MSG, Sorokin perhaps began to rewrite the narrative.