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.
Varlamov, Engvall and Mayfield all were unrestricted free agents and Varlamov and Mayfield, in particular, had expressed a strong desire to remain with the Islanders.
Engvall, acquired from the Maple Leafs on Feb. 28, agreed to a seven-year deal with an AAV of $3 million.
The Islanders announced Mayfield had agreed to a seven-year deal and Varlamov has a four-year contract. Terms of those deals were not immediately available.
President and general manager Lou Lamoriello had repeated several times that re-signing the team's free agents would be his priority.
Meanwhile, UFA defenseman Parker Wotherspoon signed a new deal with the Bruins.
