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Islanders rookie goalie Ilya Sorokin must adjust to NHL style of play, Barry Trotz says

In this Feb. 11, 2017, file photo, Russia's goalkeeper Ilya Sorokin makes a save during the Sweden Hockey Games at Scandinavium Arena in Goteborg, Sweden. Credit: AP/Bjorn Larsson Rosvall

Asked what the biggest adjustment Russian rookie goaltender Ilya Sorokin will have to make in his first season in North America, coach Barry Trotz said learning English won’t be it.

"He speaks English, much more clearly than I do,’’ Trotz said of Sorokin.

Trotz thinks Sorokin has adapted to the narrower NHL rinks, but it is the "quickness and randomness’’ of NHL shots he will have to get used to.