Alexander Romanov and Ilya Sorokin didn’t have the option of going home for Christmas or spending the holiday with their extended families.
Getting to another continent over a three-day break is out of the question, even if the Russian invasion of Ukraine wasn’t a factor for the two of them specifically.
The ties between Shesterkin, Sorokin and Romanov go back a long way. Shesterkin and Sorokin have been friends since childhood, and have played in the same age group for the Russian national team. Shesterkin and Romanov know each other through the Krylya Sovetov Moscow youth team, though Romanov is four years younger than the Rangers’ netminder. And Sorokin and Romanov were teammates for CSKA Moscow in the KHL long before playing together on Long Island.
“It’s not easy to be a foreigner in a [new] country,” Romanov told The Post. “And it’s really good when you have close friends here. It’s important.”The NHL is unique among major sports in how it handles the holiday season. Instead of playing through and trying to make Christmas a marquee television event as the NBA and NFL do, the NHLPA negotiated three league-mandated off days, Dec. 24-26, into the collective bargaining agreement.
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