Sorokin, Islanders shut out Flyers, win 6th in row
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Sorokin makes 23 saves, Gatcomb gets 1st NHL goal as Islanders top Flyers 3-0 for 6th straight win
Ilya Sorokin’s Shutout Leads Surging Islanders to Sixth Straight Win
A few weeks ago, the Eastern Conference Playoff race seemed as crowded as possible. Only a handful of points separated teams in the last few spots from those at the bottom of the conference.
Simon Holmstrom scored twice and added an assist, and Ilya Sorokin made 30 saves to lead the New York Islanders to a 5-2 win over the Colorado Avalanche on Tuesday night.
After some struggles to find consistency in the first half of the season, Ilya Sorokin seems back to his elite self.
The New York Islanders (23-20-7) are officially in a groove. They’ve won six in a row, nine of the last eleven. All but one in regulation. Staggering process in all three zones, from directionless to surging.
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With a five-game winning streak and eight victories in their last 10 games, the Islanders are as confounding as ever.
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Islanders Win Sixth-Straight, Beat Flyers 3-0; Gatcomb Scores First NHL GoalThe New York Islanders (23-20-7) marched into the Wells Fargo Center and soundly defeated the Philadelphia Flyers (23-24-6) 3-0 on Thursday night.
The Flyers face off against the New York Islanders for the third time this month on Thursday night at 7:30 p.m.
But when a stretch of eight Metropolitan Division games out of nine ended on Thursday night, the Flyers’ 3-0 loss to the visiting New York Islanders left Philadelphia’s record at 3-4-1 for that key segment.
Sorokin made 24 saves in a 3-0 win over the Flyers on Thursday. Sorokin has won five straight games and seven of his last eight games. He's also run up three shutouts in that span. Sorokin is an elite netminder who hasn't been getting a lot of support from his teammates,
Marc-Andre Fleury made 19 saves for his first shutout of the season in likely his final game in Montreal, helping the Minnesota Wild beat the Canadiens 4-0 on Thursday night. The 40-year-old Fleury, from Sorel-Tracy about 50 miles northeast of Montreal,
Coach John Tortorella said recently that Ivan Fedotov’s goalie style is weird. But that wasn’t the only weird occurrence inside the Wells Fargo Center Thursday night. The Flyers’ continuing troubles in the second game of a back-to-back matchup — they are now 1-8-1 in those games — continued following a 3-0 loss to the New York Islanders.
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