With Ilya Sorokin's offseason back surgery announced Monday, what will the season hold for the Islanders' back end?

Isles coach, as his first training camp nears, revealed why top goaltender Ilya Sorokin won't be ready for camp.

Patrick Roy accidentally announced to the media that goaltender Ilya Sorokin underwent back surgery during the summer. While we don’t yet know the severity of the injury and its consequences, we do know that Sorokin is not expected to be ready for the start of training camp.

It’s not quite the Same Old Isles who will show up at training camp this week, but it’s pretty far from a whole new world. Longtime stalwarts Matt Martin and Cal Clutterbuck are gone, while Anthony Duclair and Maxim Tsyplakov enter,