mirtle.blogspot.com - 10/13/2008
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The New York Islanders received some unwanted news just one game into the new season as the team learned that goaltender Rick DiPietro has swelling and fluid around his surgically repaired left knee.DiPietro, who has been plagued by knee injuries throughout his career, underwent meniscus surgery ...
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 ...
The Islanders Blog Box- Now A Media Way of Life
sportsmediajournal.com 11/12/2008 — There was much talk across the blogsphere when it was announced in June of 2007 that the New York Islanders would create a separate special media section for independent bloggers of the team. The New York Islanders Blog Box allowed fan bloggers to ...
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 ...
Islanders' situation critical without new rink
fromtherink.com 11/17/2008 —
I've been catching good chunks of quite a few Islanders games lately, which is a bit of a strange thing to say given the roster they're icing these days. But I had a chance in the off-season to chat with coach Scott Gordon , then with ...
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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Islanders DVD - CONFIRMED!
nyhockeyrivalry.com 11/26/2008 — Those of you who have followed this blog for a while know that we have been clamoring for an Islanders DVD set for some time. Or, at least, I have. In June, we each did a list of the ten games we'd like to see on DVD sets for the Islanders and ...
Fight Video: Voros plays Punch-Out, Isles' Thompson wins brawl
sports.yahoo.com 10/28/2008 — 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. ...
NO RICK, BUT ISLES FIGHT ON ?
nypost.com 11/3/2008 — After his team fell apart in the third period of Saturday night's loss, Islanders head coach Scott Gordon said that he hadn't really thought about being without Rick DiPietro for 4-6 weeks following knee surgery on Friday. The coach's mindset...
Brittle DiPietro's contract hurts Islanders, too -
newsday.com 10/27/2008 — Rick DiPietro saw the doctor again this morning, an occurrence these days about as common as another Islanders loss. It's sad that it's come to this, that the Islanders' goalie has become so fragile and injury-prone. But that's where we're at, and ...
Pens latest beneficiaries of 40-minute Isles
lighthousehockey.com 11/10/2008 — Ah, the curious case of the November 2008 New York Islanders, who wouldn't know how to protect a lead if their season depended on it. Crystallizing what ails them, the Isles were outshot 18 to freaking one in the third against Pittsburgh before ...
Islanders, Sabres total 150 penalty minutes —
Newsday.com - Islanders 10/14/2008
With his team down 4-0 after three quick second-period
scores by Buffalo, new Islanders enforcer Nate Thompson understood it was time to take action. Before the puck dropped at center ice, he went after Buffalo's Adam Mair, an opponent he'd been ...
