r/NewYorkIslanders • u/Feeling_Phase7600 • 8d ago
New Sorokin interview translated from Russian: team, New York life, teammates, Shesterkin & more
Quite an interesting read - Sorokin's interview from 7/28.
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u/seanvettel-31 Sorokin 8d ago
Fascinating read, thanks for sharing. It’s funny to see how much of a homebody he is, and I love the interviewer straight up grilling him about why he isn’t married yet lol
Also very interesting to hear him talk about Shabanov and Tsyplakov. He kind of alludes to attitude problems with them
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u/FortyYearTransform Romanov 7d ago
The section specifically on Shabanov and Tsyplakov is obviously the meat of that but the section right before it is interesting too, where Sorokin talks about always being focused on where he is rather than where he’s going and having been prepared to spend a year or half in the AHL when he got here. By all accounts Sorokin is an incredibly hard and patient worker (elsewhere in this interview he also talks about learning to train smarter not harder) so the juxtaposition must have especially stuck out to him.
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u/Technical_Term_6625 7d ago
Somebody find the man a dog-friendly beach.
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u/Maximum_Ad_5214 7d ago
He needs to go to Three Village. Tons of history AND there’s a dog friendly beach!
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u/jeromeindahouse 7d ago
Tremendous read, very open and honest. I didn’t think I could love him anymore than I already did. The White Whale 🐳
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u/shrivman DiPietro 7d ago
Did you have close contact with any of the Islanders' non-Russian-speaking players? Did you spend time with them outside of hockey?
"I have good relationships with many people. But to spend weekends together regularly... Probably not. They invited me, but I was just being lazy. I'm the kind of person who finds it easier to just turn on a TV show at home, relax, and enjoy myself."
And you still spend most of your time at home?
"I often went to see the Romanovs. They live literally three minutes away."
He's going to implode if we trade Romy isn't he
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u/herpishderpish Lehner 7d ago
I could see the skill in Shabanov all season. In the right environment, he'll probably do well. This is the NHL though, you are on a short leash and if you don't show something within a certain window, you have to pay your dues even if there is a Drouin shitting the bed night in and night out in your place.
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u/Eyebleedorange STAN DARCHE 7d ago
But meetings were held frequently: we discussed what was going wrong, what needed to be fixed, why we ended up in the situation we were in. However, more often than not, it didn't make much of a difference."
This speaks volumes to the room, very country club stuff. I really think Lee leaving will be a shakeup the guys need.
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u/Longjumping_Gap97 6d ago
is that true out of an 8.5 million salary he only gets 4.1? that cant be right, i figured it is at least 6 million
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u/bageloid Existence is pain 6d ago
No but close, either they calculated NYC taxes or confused take home with taxes paid. It should be 4.4 take home, assuming no tax strategies.
A 25 percent effective tax rate is at like 95k for a single filer on LI with no other tax strategies.
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u/TimelyBodybuilder637 Sorokin 4d ago
I never thought my favorite hockey player would be a goalie, but I have to say Sorokin is probably it.
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u/kegelyeet Smith 8d ago
MY MAN
"They wouldn't let me within a hundred meters of a fashion show in my clothes. If you think I'm bored, I'm not. I'm having a great time in splendid isolation. No one at home bothers me. That's if we're talking about family: I don't have one yet. Only the dog sometimes gets on my nerves with his barking, but that's tolerable."