Ilya Sorokin

Ilya Sorokin

G · Left catchesAge 316'2" · 195 lbMezhdurechensk, Russia
cap hit$8.25M8-year extensionsigned July 1, 2023contract ledger →

Wins by season

Career NHL wins, ending with the projection at a 60-start workload (violet).

21: 17 pts172122: 26 pts2623: 33 pts332324: 25 pts2525: 30 pts302526: 29 pts2930PROJ27: 6 pts (projected 30)27

Pool value

Projected full-season fantasy worth.

76/100
why 76?

Every fantasy goalie category, scored on the season model's projections at a 60-start workload:

  • proj wins30 × 4.5+135
  • proj shutouts2.7 × 3+8.1
  • SV% 0.898 vs .900-0.002 × 250-0.5
  • GAA 3.11 vs 2.70-0.41 × 50-20.5
  • total122 pool points  ·  an elite goalie season scores 160122 = 76/100

Weights: a win is worth 4.5 (the heaviest goalie category in every format), a shutout 3, SV% pays 250 per full point above .900 and GAA pays 50 per hundredth below 2.70. 100 = a Vezina-tier season (~26 W, 6 SO, .918, 2.45). Projections shrink SV% toward career and league averages because save percentage repeats poorly year to year; wins lean on team quality for the same reason.

Season stats — goaltending

NHL regular-season goaltending numbers from the league's goalie feed — wins, GAA, save% and shutouts, season by season. Skater columns (G/A/P) would be all zeros for a goalie, so they're gone. The 60-start proj line is a model, not a pace: save% is projected with empirical-Bayes shrinkage toward career and league (save% is weakly repeatable — Schuckers 2016; a James–Stein study on NHL save% found shrinkage beats the raw estimate 2.2× in error), GAA is rebuilt from its SA/60 × (1−SV%) identity, shutouts are the Poisson zero probability at the projected goals-against rate (Buttrey & Washburn, JQAS 2011), and wins are regressed toward the league per-start rate because wins are mostly a team stat (Berri & Brook 2010). Backtested on 330 goalie seasons from our own data: 26% lower save% error and 16% lower GAA error than naive last-year pace. Hockey's honest truth: save% barely repeats, so this model shrinks hard on purpose.

SeasonTeamGPGSWLOTGAASV%SO
20-21NYI292617732.3191.9%3
21-22NYI5252261882.4092.5%7
22-23NYI6866332672.3792.5%6
23-24NYI57562520123.0490.8%2
24-25NYI6160302462.7190.7%4
25-26NYI5554292422.6890.6%7
26-27NYI12126422.5791.4%1
60-start projNYI6060302283.1189.8%2.7

Data via the public NHL API · 2026 Pro Hockey Stats