Nashville, Tenn. – The islanders already have a goalkeeper for counting this season.
Now Ilya Sorokin can also be.
Sorokin did not go out for the third period of the Tuesday night against the predators, being replaced by Marcus Hogberg after 40 minutes, and was not in the bank.
It is possible that the Russian, who underwent back surgery last summer, hurt Michael McCarron at 13:25 of the second, when McCarron landed on his shoulder after scoring.
Sorokin is the only goalkeeper of the islanders in being healthy throughout the season, with Highberg fighting with a broken hand and semi -vary a varlamv an unleashed injury from the lower part of the body that has set him aside from the Black Friday.
The islanders have only five games left in their season after Tuesday and are on the cusp or are eliminated from the playoff dispute.
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