Semyon Varlamov ran with a ‘risky idea’ to return to hockey — it might give him his career back

After Semyon Varlamov underwent two partial knee replacements, Ilya Sorokin had the same question for him as everybody else.

“I asked him, ‘What do you think? It’s done?’ ” Sorokin recalled Thursday. The “it” was Varlamov’s career. “He said, ‘No, I will come back.’ First thing he said.”

Somehow, some way, Varlamov looks on track to resume playing hockey games this season. He took the ice Thursday as the Islanders opened training camp, and if you didn’t know any better, you would have been unable to tell what he’d been through over the 22 months that have elapsed since he last took part in an NHL practice or game.

Varlamov never had…

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