NEW YORK — The gang is staying together.
The Islanders announced on Saturday — about four hours after the free agent market opened at noon — that goalies Ilya Sorokin and Semyon Varlamov, forward Pierre Engvall and defenseman Scott Mayfield all had agreed to new contracts.
Sorokin, the Vezina Trophy runner-up as the NHL’s top goalie, has one season remaining on his current three-year, $12 million deal. Saturday was the first day he could sign an extension, and he agreed to a maximum eight-year deal with an average annual value of $8.25 million.
