Sorokin’s Start, Challenging Defensive Environments, and the Vezina Race So Far

The Hockey PDOcast

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4.8 • 920 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Dimitri Filipovic is joined by Kevin Woodley to discuss Ilya Sorokin's start to the year, the most challenging defensive environments and the challenges they post to the goalies playing behind them, Jesper Wallstedt's first full NHL season, how Mackenzie Blackwood has looked since returning from injury, Logan Thompson continuing to post outrageous numbers, and the top of the Vezina conversation at this point.

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0:00.0	Regressing to the mean since 2015, it's the Hockey P.D.O.cast with your host, Dmitri Filipovich.
0:19.1	Welcome to the Hockey Pee-Ocast. My name is Dmitra Filipovich, and joining me as my good buddy, Kevin Woodley. Kevin, what's going on, man?
0:25.5	Oh, you know, it's December, which means sort of prepared for the holidays, which really means not at all. So you're one of those last minute guys like me or?
0:36.2	Definitely. I'm actually, yeah. I'm taking on a day-by-day basis right now. There's so much hockey on? Definitely. I'm taking it.
0:38.1	I'm on a day by day basis right now.
0:39.8	There's so much hockey on every night.
0:41.1	I'm waiting until the holiday break starts, maybe 23rd evening, 24th in the morning,
0:46.7	get some last minute Christmas shopping done.
0:48.6	Yeah.
0:49.5	I'm a 24th guy on a lot of years.
0:51.8	Unfortunately, I'm leaving town beforehand so that that bumps it up.
0:54.9	I got to be prepared this year and I'm not. Well, here's the good news. We've got an early Christmas gift for our listeners because they always love when we have you on. It's been a while since we checked in. We're due for our monthly catch up here. I've got a list of topics on the goaltending front that I wanted to chat about with you today and pick your brain on.
1:13.7	And so we're going to get through as many other. hopefully catch up here. I've got a list of topics on the goaltending front that I wanted to chat
1:12.0	about with you today and pick your brain on. And so we're going to get through as many of them as we can.
1:15.6	I wanted to start off with Ilya Sorokin, who started the year with an 868 say percentage, 26 goals
1:23.0	against in his first seven starts. Since then, 14 starts, 27 goals against combined, 9.31, say, percentage.
1:29.7	And this coincides with, I don't know how much of it is actually directly related,
1:36.8	how much of it is he was going to turn it around after just a small sample of seven games
1:40.3	anyways, but it certainly neatly coincides with the goalie coach change they made along
1:45.0	the way towards the end of October, bringing in his goalie coach from his final two years
1:49.5	in the KHL who had been working with the AHA affiliates since last season and getting them
1:55.7	working together again full time here for the Islanders. And he's taken off since. And he's done so
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