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What Is Going On Here
KK Hockey — ... Gordon isn’t afraid to discipline his star player for careless or selfish mistakes. But when Gordon and DiPietro both attributed the decision to switch to MacDonald to an injury while refusing to specify the nature of said injury, when it occurred and how long it might affect the starting goaltender, the message was mixed and invited speculation. Gordon and DiPietro both expressed some discomfort about discussing the subject, which only added to the doubt about what really happened. more Filed in: ...

Greg Logan goes off at Islanders Policy----again
NEW YORK ISLANDER FAN CENTRAL — 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. ...

DP Really Injured?
HockeyBuzz.com: Eklund — ... just an Islander's blog." But let me tell you, this year the Islanders might be a fulcrum for a battle between press/bloggers on getting through the mud that the NHL's new injury policy creates. Last night fallout might be it just beginning to heat up. Isles lost last night 4-3 to Carolina, but the bigger story seems to be that Rick DiPietro was pulled after the 1st period. It wasn't until after the game it seems that suddenly he was pulled due to injury. Newsday's Greg Logan doesn't quite buy it . In fact, he takes on the entire Isles injury policy by doing the ...

Morning Link Dump - Milano, Manny, Robocop, Singletary, DiPietro, It's Always Sunny
TheScore.com Blog — ... Great screed from Newsday about the Islanders' goalie's removal from a game because of an "injury" on Saturday-- not because he made a brutal play just before it happened. ...

DiPietro's injury reveals the NHL's broken injury policy
Puck Daddy — ... the team didn't have to reveal anything more than barebones information about DiPietro's condition. This led to frustration in the media, who wondered if the franchise goalie had reinjured his surgically repaired ailments. This also led to a scathing satire of the situation by Newsday beat writer Greg Logan: ...

Why the injury-disclosure imbroglio matters
Snapshots — ... in his left knee, Newsday's Greg Logan became so frustrated by the Islanders' lack unwillingness to acknowledge that DiPietro was hurt at all that he penned this missive in his blog: October 26, Newsday : 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 policy, then, I must institute a new personal policy of disregarding their intentionally misleading injury reports in favor of my own ...

I guess you want my reaction on Mr Logan ?
NEW YORK ISLANDER FAN CENTRAL — ... His complains about the NHL injury policy which I guess the Isles were not allowed to adhere to like most NHL teams without severe criticism unlike no other NHL team here or anonymous quotes about Ted Nolan and Scott Gordon we never got out of the Ranger or Knick lockeroom from the same newspaper and I felt (call it speculation and perhaps dead wrong) there were some issues between the writer and Rick DiPietro who he did not blog about when he started the all-star game in Atlanta which has nothing to do with print space. ...