weblogs.newsday.com - 10/28/2008
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The Islanders have done their best to shroud the issues surrounding goaltender Rick DiPietro’s health in mystery, obfuscation and misdirection. They issued a statement last night that was like a skeleton picked clean of any meat by buzzards.
“Lower body injury”… “unrelated to previous ...
weblogs.newsday.com - 10/26/2008
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weblogs.newsday.com —
For reasons I respectfully decline to disclose, I
remain skeptical about goaltender Rick DiPietro’s so-called “injured” status....
If the Islanders continue to withhold detailed injury information from the media and their fans as a matter of club ...
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How hurt is Rick DiPietro really?
sports.yahoo.com - 10/28/2008
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sports.yahoo.com —
The first beautiful thing about this fight is
that it takes place at the Nassau Coliseum during...
a New York Rangers / New York Islanders game, which means the crowd makes it sound like Round 8 of an Oscar de la Hoya/Manny Pacquiao fight. It's bedlam. ...
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Fight Video: Voros plays Punch-Out, Isles' Thompson wins ...
newsday.com - 11/2/2008
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newsday.com —
For the second time in just under five
months, Islanders goaltender Rick DiPietro has undergone arthroscopic knee...
surgery to repair a meniscus injury, the team announced last night. The statement released by the club did not indicate if the second ...
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DiPietro out 4-6 weeks after more knee surgery
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Dealing With DiPietro
KK Hockey —
... was like a skeleton picked clean of any meat by buzzards.
“Lower body injury”… “unrelated to previous injuries”…“day-to-day pending assessment and treatment.”
I’d ask them to define what they mean by “unrelated to previous injuries,” but trying to get a straight answer is like trying to see Major Major in “Catch-22.” You only can go in to see him when he’s out.
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Postmortem: Isles fall to Rangers
Lighthouse Hockey —
... Take the final 30 minutes the Islanders played against Carolina, and the first 30 minutes they played against the Rangers, and you might have a win. Or at least a tie and a chance at the super-duper shootout ("Because Americans demand a winner") bonus point. That's with or without Rick DiPietro, who -- according to some tea leaves -- could be out quite a while longer. ...
Assignment Day: Hillen, Filatov down; Schenn perma-up; Bailey still hurt
Lighthouse Hockey —
... First, some mild palace intrigue: After the home loss to the Rangers dropped the Islanders to 2-6 and ignited talk of the long, long road ahead to remold the franchise, captains Bill "McNulty" Guerin, Doug Weight, and Richard Park ...
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Injury-prone DiPietro sidelined again —
Newsday.com - Islanders 10/28/2008
Islanders All-Star goaltender Rick DiPietro was ruled
out of last night's game against the Rangers at Nassau Coliseum after undergoing a medical examination, the club announced. According to a statement, DiPietro "incurred a lower body injury ...
