{"id":413096,"date":"2026-01-16T12:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T12:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/413096\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T12:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T12:17:09","slug":"sorokin-makes-35-saves-islanders-shut-out-oilers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/413096\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorokin makes 35 saves, Islanders shut out Oilers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Connor Ingram<\/a> made 17 saves for the Oilers (23-17-8), who had earned points in their previous five games (3-0-2).<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought it was a good hockey game,\u201d Ingram said. \u201cThat\u2019s probably one that the people who want 6-5 games hate, but I thought it was a good hockey game.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome days, the passes are going to go your way and sometimes they\u2019re not. We hit two posts pretty hard in the third period and that\u2019s the difference.\u201d<\/p>\n

Connor McDavid<\/a>\u2019s point streak ended at a career-high 20 games (19 goals, 27 assists).<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m very happy with our team\u2019s effort and execution,\u201d Oilers coach Kris Knoblauch said. \u201cIngram played really well and made some big saves, especially early in the game.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had a lot of good scoring chances 5-on-5, on the power play and 6-on-5. We did pretty much everything but put the puck in the net.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shots were tied 12-12 in the first period, while the Oilers outshot the Islanders 13-4 in the second. The Islanders didn\u2019t register a shot in the first 12:55 of the third period and had just six shots on goal over the final two periods.<\/p>\n

Just 32 seconds into the third period, the Oilers thought Evan Bouchard put them ahead 1-0 on the power play, taking a cross-ice feed to the left dot from out of the opposite corner by Leon Draisaitl<\/a> and sending a wrist shot through the legs of Sorokin. The puck hit the inside post and bounced out, with video review confirming the call on the ice of no goal.<\/p>\n

Duclair put the Islanders ahead 1-0 on the power play at 13:42 of the third period. Calum Ritchie<\/a> got the puck at the left post before spinning into a backhand pass into the slot for Duclair, who beat Ingram glove side.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt feels great, a great confidence booster for sure. We\u2019re not too worried about his (McDavid\u2019s) point streak, we\u2019re just trying to play solid defensively,\u201d Duclair said. \u201cWe know these guys are pretty solid and they\u2019re going to get looks, it doesn\u2019t matter how well you play, but I think when Sorokin is playing that way it gives us so much confidence back there and I think we did a great job.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur D did a great job of stepping up, especially when they are coming through the neutral zone with so much speed and I think defensively we did a great job.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was the Islanders\u2019 first power-play goal in six games after going 0-for-7 in that span.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe talk about the power play each and every day and how we can improve on it,\u201d Duclair said. \u201cThose are the types of games we need to bury our chances.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not getting too many calls our way, so when we do get an opportunity we want to make sure we capitalize. And that\u2019s what we did.\u201d<\/p>\n

With the secondary assist on the goal, Mathew Barzal<\/a> recorded his 500th career point.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m moreso a passer my entire career, so a lot of credit to my teammates for putting the puck in the back of the net,\u201d Barzal said. \u201cIt takes a lot of people, including my family and everybody, to get to a milestone like that. It\u2019s cool.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Connor Ingram made 17 saves for the Oilers (23-17-8), who had earned points in their previous five games…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-413096","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}