Ivan Sorokin hockey player. Sorokin Ilya Igorevich Wouldn't call last season a failure

We all love to compare, draw historical parallels. And there, across the ocean, it is elevated to a cult. Every year in Canada, "Next One", "second Crosby", "new Gretzky" is born. And it doesn't matter that the test turns out that the new idol is just a good artisan, able to shine a couple of times in a season. In Russia, bright attackers and monumental defenders are born less and less. But goalkeepers, who seem to be considered piece goods, do not cease to please Vladislav Tretiak. Failed to bloom Andrey Vasilevsky how a stellar future began Ilya Sorokin.

Russian goalkeepers who are starting to make their way to the top have no choice but to be called the “new Bobrovskys”. This cliché was miraculously avoided by Vasilevsky, who declared himself too early, emphasizing his individuality. For all other young goalkeepers, Bobrovsky's Vezina Trophy should become a beacon. What can we say about the guy from Novokuznetsk, who, with all his desire, cannot avoid comparisons with the Columbus goalkeeper. If one is counted among the heirs of Bobrovsky, it is the 19-year-old goalkeeper of Metallurg Novokuznetsk.

Journalists are often accused of hasty conclusions and almost the evil eye of young hockey players. They say, having blinded the stars from talented guys who have just voted, we involuntarily tear them away from reality. Not everyone manages to continue to plow when everyone around pronounces your last name.

“Without uttering big words about a great future, we state: Sorokin is the best Russian goalkeeper playing today in the KHL.”

exclusively breathable. But isn't that what they call copper pipes, without passing through which it is impossible to become a big player? Sooner or later, this burden will fall on everyone, no one has yet managed to store talent in a vacuum.

Without uttering big words about a great future, we state: . However, clarifications are inappropriate here. While the NHL team is just getting ready for the new season, Ilya has occupied the niche of the strongest goalkeeper with a Russian passport. Konstantin Barulin again loses the competition to the young shifter. Alexander Eremenko just got up from the Dynamo bench. Evgeny Ivannikov And Emil Garipov, which became the discoveries of the last season, are not yet so convincing. So does Sorokin have competitors?

Playing at his level Vasily Koshechkin. The champion goalkeeper doesn't do anything supernatural, but even small rough edges in the game of the Magnitogorsk giant don't cost Magnitogorsk points. When you have a trio ahead of you, like Zaripov - Kovarzh - Mozyakin, you can feel calm and relaxed. A trip to the reserve in a match with Amur is an exception that should accompany any rule.

The game makes a good impression Stanislav Galimov- league leader in dry games. One can argue for a long time whether 100 million rubles is an adequate price for this goalkeeper, but at the moment Galimov is seen as a selection success Sergei Fedorov. He coolly sat on the bench Kevin Laland, A Ilya Proskuryakova and completely squeezed out to Vladivostok. It seems that CSKA has come to an end to the goalie leapfrog, and the “army team” have received the first number for many years.

There are a dozen goaltenders in the league who concede fewer than two goals per game on average. Sorokin, which is remarkable, is not one of them. 94,1% - a solid indicator of reflected shots, but here there are guys cooler than the native of Mezhdurechensk. Let's say, the same Koshechkin or Sorokin's competitor for a place at the gates of the youth team Denis Kostin. Yes, and there is only one shut-out in the collection of the Kuzny goalkeeper, earned in the opening game of the championship against Avangard. Judging by the numbers, there is no trace of Sorokin's dominance in the league.

Which stand out at the start of this season, there is one, but significant difference. Nobody, and it's hard to argue with this, drags a team on himself, as a 19-year-old kid in the uniform of Metallurg Novokuznetsk does. It is enough for his colleagues alone to prevent

blunders, others - to correspond to the general level of the team. Made a couple of saves in a match? Partners will come up, knock on the pads, thanking for a good game. "Forge" with its capabilities and composition of "just a good" goalkeeper game is not enough to win. The feat has to be included in the daily diet.

After nine matches, the Forge settled in fourth place in the conference, gaining 15 points. Impressive, isn't it? However, to complete the picture, it is necessary to return to the recent past, or rather, to the start of the 2013/14 season. For comparison: last season Metallurg had to spend 30 matches, and this is more than half of the championship! The Novokuznetsk team won their fifth victory only at the end of November. After a short digression into history, the achievement of Novokuznetsk began to sparkle with new colors.

There is a great merit in how briskly Metallurg started German Titova. Even in the course of the last championship, it was obvious that a coach with progressive views on hockey appeared in the Forge, who could put together a pretty team. Titov is also a real find for journalists, especially in comparison with Anatoly Emelin, who previously worked in Novokuznetsk. Surprisingly, German Mikhailovich manages to squeeze the maximum out of very average players, while not looking like a despot in the eyes of the public. Titov does not look for someone to blame, does not complain about fate, working with those who are at his disposal.

To understand the role of Sorokin in the Titov mechanism, it is enough to review the game of Metallurg in Novosibirsk, where Main coach for an inexplicable reason entrusted a place at the gate Andrey Kareev. The debutant goalkeeper missed three light goals during the starting period, after which he gave way to Sorokin. Ilya started all subsequent matches in the starting lineup. And even when "Forge" was losing, as in the home match against "Siberia", the young goalkeeper was the best in the Novokuznetsk team. If field players allow 50 shots on goal, even one earned point can be taken as a gift from above.

Sorokin is one of the most "loaded" goalkeepers in the league. On the fingers of one hand, you can count the goalkeepers, on whose gates more shots are made than on the possessions of the Novokuznetsk talent. Sometimes Ilya does not even have time to wipe the sweat off his face, and even reaching for a bottle is a real success, comparable to a sip of water in the desert. Neither Koshechkin, nor Galimov, nor anyone with indicators similar to Sorokin's, work in such a crazy mode.

The only breakdown in Sorokin's game came in a home game with Barys. Having conceded four goals in a period and a half, he lost his place at the gate Rafael Khakimov. Any goalkeeper has the right to get up on the wrong foot one day. As an excuse for Ilya, one can also note that Dustin Boyd, who scored a double in that match, delivered extremely complex and tricky shots. In a word, master.

However, there is a statistical observation that more accurately explains Sorokin's momentary breakdown. The match with Barys was the only one of the season in which Titov's men lost to their rivals in terms of the number of blocked shots! As a rule, from 50 to 100 shots are applied towards the "Forge" gate, and only a part of them reaches Sorokin directly. As soon as the Metallurg players stopped helping their breadwinner, even he turned out to be powerless.

It would seem that Sorokin's success can be attributed to the fact that the burden of responsibility does not press on him. Ilya plays in a team that does not set big goals, his game is not considered under a microscope and is not projected into the upcoming playoffs. Whether it's to be the goalkeeper of a team with championship ambitions. How does it feel -

“Given that Oleg Znarok promised to call several candidates for the youth team to the Karjala Cup, Sorokin has every chance to make his debut for the national team.”

ask Jakub Stepanek And Alexandra Salaka.

Sorokin is familiar with pressure of a different kind. Every match he is in a position where he has no room for error. Even taking a high place in the table, Kuznya scores catastrophically little. Things are worse only for HC "Sochi" and "Lada", which settled on the last places in their conferences. Ilya understands that three goals for his team is the ceiling, which means that he himself must concede one, maximum two times per game.

At the moment, it is obvious who should be the first number at the World Youth Championships in Montreal and Toronto. While the headliner of a generation Igor Shesterkin marinated by St. Petersburg "army men" in major league, his peer from Novokuznetsk is getting stronger psychologically with every game and gaining invaluable experience. Given that Oleg Znarok promised to call several candidates for the youth team to the Karjala Cup, Sorokin has every chance of making his debut for the national team. There are only two players in the league who deserve to be called up to the first team not “for growth”, but in accordance with the level of the game: Pavel Buchnevich from Severstal and, in fact, Sorokin. Bobrovsky, at the age of 19, could only dream of such a thing.

Even if Sorokin, as a candidate, hardened by playing in, is released from a trip to the Subway Super Series, in his absence, the Forge will have to be oh so difficult. Siberians will play at least six matches without Sorokin in December and January. The reason for this - the youth world championship. In the event that Znarok pays attention to the best, at the moment, Russian goalkeeper, then Metallurg will be orphaned for another two games. Khakimov or Lozhkin to make up for this loss will not work with all the desire.

Last year, "Forge" refused services Niko Hovinen, and in the past off-season, she did not look for a foreign goalkeeper. Thus, Metallurg does its work for the FHR. So far, we don’t even have a hint of a systematic training of goalkeepers, and the “Russian school” is a collection of nuggets, teams that are not afraid to give a chance to their pupils save. Sometimes, even to their own detriment. Playing talented youth is still honorable and far-sighted. However, here and now, it will be extremely difficult for Metallurg Novokuznetsk to survive the constant absences of its goalkeeper for the national team and recover from “magpie addiction”.

Ilya Igorevich Sorokin(August 4, 1995, Novokuznetsk, Russia) - Russian hockey player, goalkeeper of the Continental Hockey League (KHL) CSKA.

Career

Ilya Sorokin - was born in Novokuznetsk, but then moved to Mezhdurechensk where he first started skating. He is a graduate of Mezhdurechensk hockey and Metallurg Novokuznetsk (since 2009). Twice (in 2011 and 2012) the hockey player as part of Novokuznetsk took part in the final tournaments of the Russian championship among youths, and in 2012 he played for a team a year older. In the match against the Steel Foxes, which took place on September 3, 2012, Sorokin played for the first time in the Youth hockey league for the Kuznetsk Bears. The debut for the goalkeeper did not turn out to be outstanding: young Magnitogorsk players Evgeny Grigorenko, Timur Shingareev, Daniil Bikbulatov and Vladimir Malinovsky scored 5 goals at his goal. Having again conceded 5 goals in the second match in Magnitogorsk, the goalkeeper in the next game gave way to Andrei Kareev and played irregularly until mid-October. October 20, 2012 Ilya Sorokin played his first match in the MHL "to zero" (against the "Seagull"). In just 2 seasons spent in the MHL, the goalkeeper (including the playoffs) played 36 matches, conceded 88 goals, and the game against the Seagull was the only one for him without conceded goals.

On January 7, 2013, in a match against Barys, Ilya Sorokin made his debut for Metallurg in the Kontinental Hockey League. The goalkeeper replaced Alexander Lazushin on the court and, in the 25 incomplete minutes allotted to him, repelled 15 opponent's shots, conceding one goal. In the match with Lokomotiv, played on February 15, Sorokin spent all 60 minutes on the court for the first time. In the first 2 seasons, the hockey player played 36 matches in the regular season and the Cup of Hope.

Ilya Sorokin was selected 78th overall by the New York Islanders in the 3rd round of the 2014 NHL Entry Draft. However, the goalkeeper remained in Novokuznetsk and on September 4, 2014 he played the first dry match in the KHL in his career. On October 28, 2014, Ilya Sorokin was called up by the coaching staff of the Russian national team for the Karjala Cup. On November 9, Sorokin played his debut match for the national team, against the Czech team. Sorokin's debut turned out to be successful, he missed two goals, and the Russian team won 4: 2.

At the 2015 World Youth Championships, he won the silver medal.

Statistics

Club career

• a "Playoffs" takes into account the player's statistics in the Cup of Hope.

At seventeen, he became the youngest goaltender in KHL history. At the age of eighteen, he carried a serious team on his shoulders. Now Ilya is twenty, and he is rightfully called the best goalkeeper in the Continental Hockey League. It seems that the main achievements in sports biography Ilya Sorokin - still ahead.

Ilya Sorokin: a child prodigy from Mezhdurechensk

Ilya Igorevich Sorokin, the future goalkeeper, was born in Novokuznetsk on April 4, 1995. Soon the family moved to another city in Kuzbass, Mezhdurechensk, where Ilya spent his childhood. The boy started skating at the age of five. At first, Ilya also studied music and skiing. But life is a war of priorities, and after a few years the boy only had time for school and hockey. He learned to play in the local Vympel team. Hockey specialization was determined very early: Ilya Sorokin has been a goalkeeper since the age of seven. So, despite the youth of Ilya, we can say: most of his life he stood at the gate.

In 2009 young hockey player continued his studies at hockey club of his hometown - in Novokuznetsk Metallurg. In 2011-2012, he already plays in the youth championship of Russia. It was not far from the adult tournaments.

Ilya Sorokin: KHL debut

When Ilya Sorokin made his debut in the Kontinental Hockey League, he was only 17 years and five months old. Pet "Forge" became the youngest goalkeeper in the history of the KHL. He got to the adult championship on January 7, 2013 during the match between Metallurg and Barys. The Novokuznetsk club was losing on home ice, goalkeeper Lazushin conceded seven goals and was replaced by Sorokin in the 36th minute. Until the end of the match, Ilya managed to reflect 14 shots on target. Only one puck hit the net. Very good, especially for a debutant.

The young player was increasingly seen on the ice. In a victorious match with Lokomotiv in February 2013, hockey player Ilya Sorokin stood at the gate for the first time for 60 minutes.

At that time, the club was in serious financial difficulties, so the fans even started raising money to help the team. When it became clear that Metallurg would survive until the end of the season, the fans bought Sorokin a new uniform with the money raised (the goalkeeper grew out of the old one).

The fans felt that a significant, important player was growing up in the Forge.

Ilya Sorokin at the head of Novokuznetsk metallurgists

Having sold out experienced and strong hockey players, Metallurg involuntarily had to nominate a newcomer to the position of the main goalkeeper. It was not easy for Ilya to play such a role at the age of 18. Initially, this even led to a nervous breakdown and a decrease in sports results. I had to work with a psychologist.

Ilya Sorokin did it! And he began to pull out Metallurg Novokuznetsk - far from the strongest club in the KHL.

Sorokin was not the most productive goalkeeper in the 2013-2014 season. Emil Garipov from Ak Bars saved more shots, Vasily Koshechkin from Metallurg Magnitogorsk had more shutouts. But it was Sorokin that some experts called the best Continental League goalkeeper It's one thing to be a successful goalkeeper in strong team. Another thing is when the goalkeeper constantly saves the team with a leaky defense. The young goalkeeper performed an unbearably difficult task.

Ilya Sorokin: CSKA

In 2014, a promising hockey player moved to CSKA. In Novokuznetsk, they explained this by saying that the transition was carried out “in the interests of the national team,” although in fact the army team simply offered a temptingly large amount for Sorokin.

The first time in CSKA, Ilya remained on the sidelines - Galimov and Lalande were not going to retire. However, already in the 2015-2016 season. the young hockey player came to the fore and began to break records.

On March 26, Ilya had a 163-minute dry streak (the previous club record held by Pēteris Skudra had been held since 2006).

In an unbeaten streak of four matches against SKA, HC CSKA goalkeeper Ilya Sorokin managed to save 97.84% of shots on goal.

On April 20, he set a reliability record in the framework of the Gagarin Cup: during 20 difficult playoff matches, he missed only 28 goals.

Such results were shown by Ilya Sorokin - a hockey player, the hope of the national team. Many experts call him the best goalkeeper in the KHL and compare with another Russian goalkeeper, .

The two goalkeepers are not rivals, but rather comrades. Ilya admits that he learned a lot from Sergey. Both goalkeepers were included in the 2016 World Championship ice hockey team.

Ilya Sorokin: personal life

Ilya is a modest, intelligent person. The young goalkeeper looks a little older than his years, as you can see by looking at the photo of Ilya Sorokin.

Sorokin's name never appears in scandals. The hockey player does not like boasting, does not like to draw unnecessary attention to his person. True, he does not refuse an interview: everything is in order with Ilya's speech. It is known that Sorokin reads a lot (even in the hockey locker room).

Ilya Sorokin's height is 188 centimeters, weight is 78 kilograms.

Ilya Sorokin was born on August 4, 1995 in the city of Novokuznetsk, Kemerovo Region. Soon the family moved to the city of Mezhdurechensk, where the boy spent his childhood. He started skating for the first time at the age of five. In addition to hockey, he was engaged in music and skiing. However, after a few years, there was only enough time for school and hockey. In Mezhdurechensk, the young hockey player played for the local Vympel team, and he decided on hockey specialization very early. Sorokin has been a goalkeeper since the age of seven.

In 2009, fourteen-year-old Ilya continued to gain experience in Metallurg Novokuznetsk, and in 2011-2012 he already played in the youth championship of Russia. Sorokin made his debut in the Kontinental Hockey League at the age of seventeen and became the youngest goaltender in the history of the KHL. The first game for Ilya was the match between Metallurg and Barys, which took place in January 2013 in Novokuznetsk. Metallurg was losing: goalkeeper Lazushin conceded seven goals, and in the 36th minute he was replaced by Sorokin.

The young goalkeeper showed a good result for a beginner: before the end of the match, Ilya repelled 14 shots against his team, and conceded only one goal. For the first time, all 60 minutes of the match, Sorokin stood at the gate in a victorious match with Lokomotiv in February 2013. At that time, Metallurg had serious financial difficulties and fans even began to collect money to help their favorite team. Soon, Metallurg had to sell out experienced and strong players, and Ilya became the main goalkeeper.

In the 2013-14 season, the athlete was not the most productive goalkeeper, but it was his experts who named him the best goalkeeper in the continental league. After all, it is easier to be a successful goalkeeper in a strong team than to constantly pull out a weak one because of a “leaky” defense. Ilya successfully coped with this extremely difficult task.

In 2014, a talented hockey player moves to the Moscow club CSKA. At first, Sorokin was on the sidelines, but already in the 2015-16 season, the young goalkeeper begins to break records. Ilya had a 163-minute dry streak, then in four matches against SKA he managed to hit 97.84% of shots on goal, and finally set a “reliability record”: he conceded only 28 goals in 20 playoff matches.

In 2016, the commission for determining the best hockey players of the Continental Hockey League championship, based on the analysis of the statistical data of the players' performances, recognized the best goalkeeper Ilya Sorokin. The hockey player saved 94.50% of shots on his own goal with a reliability coefficient of 1.33, which was the best indicator of the first round of the playoffs.

Due to such impressive performance, on January 25, 2018, Ilya Sorokin was included in the hockey team to participate in the winter Olympic Games in the city of Pyeongchang. A month later, February 25, 2018 together with the team became the Champion of the Winter Olympic Games.

In 2019, Sorokin won the third bronze medal of the World Championship in Slovakia. I received the previous two from tournaments in Germany and Russia.

(slider Awards of Ilya Sorokina)

Order of Friendship

Honored Master of Sports

(slider Sports achivments Ilya Sorokin)

Command

Russian team

Olympic Champion 2018

Bronze medalist of the World Championship (2016, 2017, 2019)

Personal

2019 CSKA Gagarin Cup MVP
2017 CSKA Moscow KHL All-Star Game 2017
2016 CSKA KHL All-Star Game participant
2016 CSKA Winner of the "Best Goalkeeper" award
2016 CSKA Golden Helmet Award Winner
2016 CSKA KHL silver medalist

Height athlete: 188 cm; weight: 78 kg.

, Novokuznetsk, Russia) - Russian hockey player, goalkeeper of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) club CSKA.

Career

Ilya Sorokin - was born in Novokuznetsk, but then moved to Mezhdurechensk where he first started skating. He is a graduate of Mezhdurechensk hockey and Metallurg Novokuznetsk (since 2009). Twice (in 2011 and 2012) the hockey player as part of Novokuznetsk took part in the final tournaments of the Russian championship among youths, and in 2012 he played for a team a year older. In the match against the Steel Foxes, which took place on September 3, 2012, Sorokin played for the first time in the Youth Hockey League for the Kuznetsk Bears. The debut for the goalkeeper did not turn out to be outstanding: young Magnitogorsk residents Evgeny Grigorenko, Timur Shingareev, Daniil Bikbulatov and Vladimir Malinovsky scored 5 goals at his goal. Having again conceded 5 goals in the second match in Magnitogorsk, the goalkeeper in the next game gave way to Andrei Kareev and played irregularly until mid-October. On October 20, 2012, Ilya Sorokin played his first match in the MHL "to zero" (against "The Seagulls"). In just 2 seasons spent in the MHL, the goalkeeper (including the playoffs) played 36 matches, conceded 88 goals, and the game against the Seagull was the only one for him without conceded goals.