Ilya Sorokin backstops Islanders to shootout win and season sweep of Lightning
NY Post
The Lightning will be very glad they don’t have to face Ilya Sorokin again this season.
Just a week after Sorokin shut them out at Tampa Bay, the Islanders’ star netminder carried his team to a third win over the Lightning in as many tries Saturday.
The Islanders were outplayed, outgunned and outmanned without Bo Horvat, who remained day-to-day with a lower-body injury.
But thanks to Sorokin’s 32 saves, they took a 3-2 victory on Emil Heineman’s shootout winner and a sweep of the season series against the Lightning for the first time since 2013.
Combined with Pat LaFontaine’s emotional induction into the Islanders’ Hall of Fame, it made for a perfect afternoon for the organization.
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