Islanders goaltender Ilya Sorokin celebrates with Josh Bailey, left, and Cal Clutterbuck after Bailey's winning overtime goal in Game 5 of an NHL Stanley Cup first-round playoff series against the Penguins in Pittsburgh on Monday. Credit: AP/Gene J. Puskar
Barry Trotz was a big fan of Ilya Sorokin’s 48-save performance in the Islanders’ 3-2 double-overtime victory over the Penguins on Monday night.
But the coach was very much not a fan of a series of postgame questions from reporters regarding the goaltender that got a tad too laudatory for his taste.
It was the hockey equivalent of Bill Parcells’ old line, "Let’s not put him in Canton yet, fellas.