When Islanders goalies score goals, they don’t need to shoot themselves; the other team obligingly does that for them.
With 12 seconds left in a 7-4 Islanders win over the Nashville Predators, Ilya Sorokin was credited with the 20th goalie goal in NHL history when Steven Stamkos sent an errant pass back to the point that slid all the way into the empty Predators net. Like Isles legend Billy Smith — the first NHL goalie ever credited with a goal — Sorokin simply made a save, while the opponents did the rest. (Three other former Islanders goalies had goals in their careers, but Chris Osgood, Evgeni Nabakov and Ron Hextall each did it with their previous teams.