{"id":439091,"date":"2023-07-02T08:56:04","date_gmt":"2023-07-02T12:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=439091"},"modified":"2023-07-02T08:56:04","modified_gmt":"2023-07-02T12:56:04","slug":"islanders-ink-goalie-sorokin-to-8-year-extension","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/islanders-ink-goalie-sorokin-to-8-year-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Islanders ink goalie Sorokin to 8-year extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Islanders did much business during the start of the free agency as they signed goalies Ilya Sorokin and Semyon Varlamov to 8<sup>th<\/sup> and 4-year deal extensions, respectively, and defenceman Scott Mayfield and attacker Pierre Engvall for 7 more seasons.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">New York Islanders franchise goalie Ilya Sorokin has agreed to a new eight-year contract extension that starts in the 2024-25 season. It carries an average annual value of $8.25 million against the salary cap. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wTwcTaHUVq\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/wTwcTaHUVq<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/L5DIuPUyRq\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/L5DIuPUyRq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ESPN (@espn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/espn\/status\/1675274019702972417?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 1, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Ilya has signed an 8-season extension as he will earn more than 8 million dollars annually. The goalie is in the final campaign of a 3-year, 12 million dollar contract with a cap hit of 4 million dollars for the upcoming year.<\/p>\n<p>Sorokin had his best campaign in his career in the past season, where his record was 31-22-7 with a .924 save % and 2.34 goals-against average.<\/p>\n<p>The goaltender represented the franchise from the Big Apple in his 1<sup>st<\/sup> All-Star Game appearance this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Islanders did much business during the start of the free agency as they signed goalies Ilya Sorokin and Semyon Varlamov [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":439092,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17153,17066,17844],"news_category":[16709],"gn_keywords":[20232,18431,20231,20230,20229,6811],"acf":{"announce":"The New York franchise signed a long-term deal with the goaltender.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/439091"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/439091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439091"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=439091"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=439091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}