totalprosports.com - 1/22/2009
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Total Pro Sports - With just five games under his belt this season, New York Islanders star goalie Rick Dipietro has been forced to sit out for the rest of the season. After going through 2 surgeries and missing most of the season already, Dipietro still has pain in his left knee. Hearing ...
Gordon's goalie crisis
weblogs.newsday.com 1/21/2009 — On the day the Islanders officially announced that goaltender Rick DiPietro was out for the season, it was telling that rookie coach Scott Gordon said, "We went into the season with the thought process that he was going to be here all year."
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DiPietro's season over
fromtherink.com 1/20/2009 —
The New York Islanders have announced that goaltender Rick DiPietro will miss the remainder of the 2008-09 season. Team doctors have referred to the decision as precautionary due to swelling in the knee that DiPietro had arthroscopic knee ...
Islanders announce DiPietro out for the year
tsn.ca 1/20/2009 — The New York Islanders announced on Tuesday that post-surgical knee issues will sideline goalie Rick DiPietro for the rest of the season."After extensive consultation we feel this decision is in the best interest for Rick and the team," said Islanders ...
Should DiPietro Be Playing Right Now?
hockeyprogram.blogspot.com 12/27/2008 — A burning question is whether Rick DiPietro should even be playing right now. He was expected to come back this weekend and right on cue he is playing tonight against the Toronto Maple Leafs. Now what is the point of having him play right now if the team is so bad? Time will tell.
Swelling in DiPietro's knee
weblogs.newsday.com 1/8/2009 — Swelling in Rick DiPietro's surgically repaired knee prompted the Islanders to cancel his expected start tonight in Calgary, coach Scott Gordon explained after the pre-game skate today at the Pengrowth Saddledome. When DiPietro returns to Long ...
Dig in for the long haul
weblogs.newsday.com 10/28/2008 — 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.
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DiPietro's injury reveals the NHL's broken injury policy
sports.yahoo.com 11/10/2008 — Thanks to that historic contract, there's no hyperbole in calling New York Islanders goalie Rick DiPietro a franchise player. The team carefully brought him back from offseason hip and knee surgeries, keeping him out of practice for four full ...
Greg Logan goes off at Islanders Policy----again
newyorkislanderfancentral.com 10/26/2008 — Newsday : Apparently Greg Logan decided to finally do some passionate hockey blogging about the Islanders like Steve Zipay does for his team several times a day. Too bad it was not about the game, how the team played or to profile a player but what ...
How hurt is Rick DiPietro really?
weblogs.newsday.com 10/26/2008 — 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 ...
WELL ISLE BE! A WIN FOR A CHANGE —
NY Post: Sports 1/22/2009
Before last night's 2-1 Coliseum victory over the Ducks, the last time the Islanders won a game, it was 2008 and George W. Bush was president. But because of a surprisingly strong effort by Yann Danis, who also caught some lucky breaks, the Isles...