Igor Shesterkin opened the season looking the part of the league’s highest-paid goaltender.

For nearly three weeks, he’s largely been living on reputation.

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While the offense again gave the Rangers no chance of pulling out their first home win of the season, the star goaltender couldn’t match his close friend, Ilya Sorokin, in the Islanders’ 5-0 win at Madison Square Garden on Saturday night.

In the first six games of the season, Shesterkin allowed seven goals in six games.

In the six games since then, the former Vezina Trophy winner has allowed 22 goals.

While backup Jonathan Quic

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