{"id":364219,"date":"2025-11-08T09:37:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T09:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/364219\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T09:37:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T09:37:19","slug":"islanders-ilya-sorokin-goes-to-patrick-roy-for-goalie-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/364219\/","title":{"rendered":"Islanders’ Ilya Sorokin goes to Patrick Roy for goalie advice"},"content":{"rendered":"

Patrick Roy was in the crease again Friday morning to work with Ilya Sorokin.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Only this time, it was at Sorokin\u2019s request.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cHe asked me about how I [played] shootouts,\u201d Roy said before the Islanders\u2019 5-2 loss to the Wild<\/a> on Friday night with David Rittich starting in goal.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sorokin has lost both shootouts in which he\u2019s taken part this season, including Tuesday night when Boston\u2019s Marat Khusnutdinov said afterward that he knew the Islanders netminder would bite on the first move he made.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"IlyaIlya Sorokin of the New York Islanders deflects the puck during the second period when the New York Islanders played the San Jose Sharks on Tuesday, October 21, 2025 at UBS Arena in Elmont, NY. Robert Sabo for NY Post<\/p>\n

Sorokin\u2019s career record in shootouts is just 7-16, with a .623 save percentage (43 saves on 69 attempts), betraying an area of his game that is in need of some work.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Roy rarely works with goaltenders but notably broke the rule earlier this season to give Sorokin some advice \u2014 which ended up being a harbinger, as goaltending coach Piero Greco was fired soon after. <\/p>\n

This does not appear to fall in the same category, as replacement Sergei Naumovs<\/a> has a long track record working with Sorokin at CSKA Moscow and as a personal goalie coach.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Roy \u2014 whose Hall of Fame career ended in 2003 \u2014 may be the wrong person to ask for shootout advice, as games tied after overtime merely ended as ties for the entirety of his career. <\/p>\n

The shootout was not introduced in the NHL until 2005-06, after Roy had retired.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So the only shootout in which Roy participated came in the 1998 Olympic semifinal, and he lost it on Robert Reichel\u2019s goal for Czechia, with Dominik Hasek perfect in the other net.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI was extremely nervous,\u201d Roy said. \u201cObviously was going for a medal. Got scored on the first one. I said [to Sorokin] that was probably one of the most nerve-wracking moments of my career.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"NewNew York Islanders head coach Patrick Roy reacts on the bench during the third period at UBS Arena, Monday, Oct. 13, 2025, in Elmont, NY. Corey Sipkin for the NY POST<\/p>\n

\u201cI just explained to him what I was trying to do: Force guys to beat me inside instead of shooting. At the end of the day, I really appreciate that he came to me. I feel like it\u2019s a great step.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Max Shabanov (upper body) could join the Islanders on their seven-game road trip that starts Saturday at the Rangers, but it\u2019s not clear whether he\u2019ll be ready to play at any point during that time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOn the ice from Long Island\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\tThank you\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll see how it shapes up in the next day or so,\u201d Roy said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

With the top nine looking fairly set for the time being, it\u2019s also not clear where Shabanov would fit in the lineup were he to return, though that is a bridge the Islanders will cross when they get there.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Patrick Roy was in the crease again Friday morning to work with Ilya Sorokin.\u00a0 Only this time, it…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":364220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,40881,405,403,1301,5226,5225,293,5228,5227,29956,62,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-364219","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ilya-sorokin","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-new-york-islanders","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-nhl","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-patrick-roy","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115513409623475951","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}