This is the 2024-25 edition — an archived read. Read the 2026-27 report →
Ilya Sorokin
New York Islanders Goaltender
A career .9188 across 192 games, and thirteen goals of goaltending on the twenty-fifth shot share in hockey.
| Season | Team | GP | W | L | OTL | GA | GAA | SO | SA | SV% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-21 | NYI | 22 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 46 | 2.17 | 3 | 563 | .918 |
| 2021-22 | NYI | 52 | 26 | 18 | 8 | 123 | 2.40 | 7 | 1643 | .925 |
| 2022-23 | NYI | 62 | 31 | 22 | 7 | 140 | 2.34 | 6 | 1838 | .924 |
| 2023-24 | NYI | 56 | 25 | 19 | 12 | 167 | 3.01 | 2 | 1821 | .908 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 192 | 95 | 65 | 30 | 476 | 2.54 | 18 | 5865 | .919 |
This Season So Far
The 2024-25 season has not started. The empty row above is his, and both it and this paragraph fill in on their own from the morning after he first plays: what he has done, what it is worth against his own last season, and the run he is on when the two disagree.
Last Season
56 games, 25-19-12, a .9083 save percentage and a 3.01 goals-against average with 2 shutouts on 1,821 shots faced.
That is ten points of save percentage below his own career .9188 across 192 games, and it was still most of the 13.2 goals of goaltending that made this club seventh in the league at it. Twelve overtime losses in fifty-six games is a very large number and it describes the club rather than the goaltender.
The Physical Game
He is 6-3 and 189 and plays a deep, patient game, letting the shot come to him and moving only when the puck does.
Eighteen career shutouts in 192 games. The economy of movement is the whole style — he is almost never out of position because he almost never commits early. The glove is very good and the puck-handling is ordinary; the club keeps him in his net.
The Mental Game
He tracks through traffic as well as any goaltender in the league, which behind a club that concedes this many shots is most of the job.
Rebound control is genuinely good and it is the reason the second chances do not arrive. Fifty-six games at 29 behind the twenty-fifth shot share in hockey is a heavy season and the .9083 was still worth seventh place.
The Intangibles
A third-round pick in 2014 out of Mezhdurechensk, four seasons, 192 games and 95 wins, all of it for one organisation.
He is 29 and last season was the worst of his four. A .9083 that produces the seventh-best goaltending in the league tells you exactly how much shooting this club allows, and there is nothing at all behind him and Semyon Varlamov.
What kind of player
The searchable half of the report. The first group is computed from the season's own data; the rest are read out of the prose above, and each one carries the sentence that produced it. A subject the report never raised is simply absent.
- a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
- he lacks itraised, and he does not have it
Each computed tag also says how well its measure holds up from one season to the next, because a tag describes a season that has finished and a reader will assume it predicts the one coming. Some do and some do not, and the gap is wide: five-on-five workload repeats well, scoring late does not repeat at all.
“He is 6-3 and 189 and plays a deep, patient game, letting the shot come to him and moving only when the puck does.”
“He is 6-3 and 189 and plays a deep, patient game, letting the shot come to him and moving only when the puck does.”
“He tracks through traffic as well as any goaltender in the league, which behind a club that concedes this many shots is most of the job.”
“Rebound control is genuinely good and it is the reason the second chances do not arrive.”
“The glove is very good and the puck-handling is ordinary; the club keeps him in his net.”