OTTAWA — Between Ilya Sorokin and the Islanders defense, coach Patrick Roy was not going to point the finger at his goalie on Saturday.

“We gave [them] so many chances,” Roy said after the Islanders beat the Senators 5-4 . “We gotta be better in front of him.”

Undoubtedly, that was true on an afternoon where the Islanders were lucky to escape Ottawa with two points in hand given how poorly they played in their own zone and on the backcheck. 3

Sorokin, however, was also well below par in allowing four goals for the fourth time this season, including a short-side shot from David Perron that trickled through his legs in the first period.

After Sorokin gave up a similar goal to Winnipeg’s Logan Stanley last Monday, the Islanders sat him for a game and Roy made an exception to his ru

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