Patrick Roy turning to Ferrari Ilya Sorokin to change Islanders fortunes

Patrick Roy’s father, Michel, sent him a text on Thursday morning before Game 3 of the Islanders’ first round series against Carolina, reminding him of an analogy that Francois Allaire — Montreal’s goalie coach when Roy played there — made years ago.“Brian Hayward, who was my partner at the time, he said he was a Cadillac,” Patrick Roy said.“It was comfortable.

And then I was the Ferrari.Could be a little more bumpy and all this.”Ilya Sorokin? He’s the Islanders’ Ferrari.“So today, we’re going with the Ferrari,” Roy said.

“We had the Cadillac the first two games.We’re going with the Ferrari.”Roy’s decision to hand the net back over to Sorokin, a Vezina Trophy finalist just a year ago, was front and center ahead of a must-win Game 3, with the Islanders trying to avoid going down a 3-0 hole to the Hurricanes.Varlamov, in starting the first two games, hadn’t done much to lose the net, per se.

His .905 save percentage through the two losses was just fine, and if anything undersells how good he was when the Islanders were spending inordinate time in their defensive zone during Game 2.But even though Varlamov supplanted Sorokin as the No.1 about a month ago, and even though Sorokin had a tough-by-his-standards regular season, the Islanders’ ceiling is much higher with Sorokin in the net.And now is the time to take a swing.“We trust both goalies equally,” Brock Nelson said.

“I don’t think there’s one over the other.Ilya tonight, he’ll give us a chance to win every night.

We want to play hard in front of him and limit their opportunities.”When Sorokin was at his best a year ago, the Islanders were depending on him to do more than just give them a chance — they were depending on him to outright steal games for them on a near-nightly basis. And, as much as they would like to play well enough in front of him that stealing a victory isn’t necessary, they came into Game 3 needing Sorokin to return to that ascendant ...