Islanders’ season teetering on brink after Ilya Sorokin gets pulled in Game 3 loss
NY Post
The Islanders’ Ferrari broke down on the start line and returned to the garage. Now, their season is on the brink.
Turning to Ilya Sorokin might have been a necessary risk for Patrick Roy to take with his team trailing 2-0 in the series, but the move backfired almost immediately as a shaky Sorokin let in three goals on 14 shots and got a second-period hook, setting the Islanders up for a 3-2 Game 3 loss to the Hurricanes on Thursday night.
Miracles do happen. But barring something totally unforeseen, the season is all over but the shouting — of which there might be a whole lot directed at an organization that is on the brink of losing a third straight year to inertia.
In front of Semyon Varlamov, the Islanders fought back to make it a game. These Islanders have always done just enough to make it hurt.
“Our fans were in it. We were playing good,” Roy said. “It sucks to say that, but I thought we played a good game.”
The ice was a little more open at UBS Arena than it had been in Raleigh, N.C., a dynamic that fit a home side that finally saw its top six show up, with the second line getting going, and which badly needed to find ways to break the puck out clean after the first two games.
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