Goalie has been a position of need for the New York Islanders for what feels like forever. They’ve lacked that franchise goaltender, despite having okay band-aid fixes along the way. When Ilya Sorokin and Linus Soderstrom were taken in 2014 the hope was that the Islanders found their long-term netminder.
Sorokin has put up better numbers between the two. He’s never had a goals against average higher than 1.61 and a save percentage lower than .929. Despite his impressive numbers history says Sorokin will never play in the NHL.
Since the year 2000, only five Russian Goalies who were drafted have played in the NHL.