Patrick Roy always liked starting on consecutive days during his playing career.
Ilya Sorokin, at minimum, must not mind it at this point. Sunday marked the fourth time in the past four seasons that he’s started both ends of a back-to-back as he took the net in Ottawa while Semyon Varlamov was still out with a lower-body injury.
“I had a lot of back-to-back games. I almost felt better in my second game than my first game,” Roy said pregame. “I guess we’re all different. Ilya’s in really good shape, so I’m not nervous for him.”
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