weblogs.newsday.com - 10/31/2008
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The Islanders have clarified goaltender Rick DiPietro’s status regarding his placement on the injured reserve list. Although his name didn’t show up on the list until Thursday morning, his IR status is retroactive to last Sunday.
That means DiPietro is assured of missing Montreal’s visit ...
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?
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
weblogs.newsday.com - 10/28/2008
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weblogs.newsday.com —
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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Dig in for the long haul
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NEW YORK ISLANDER FAN CENTRAL —
Newsday: Greg Logan in the Islanders Newsday blog reports Rick DiPietro was placed on IR effective last Sunday which means he cannot be activated until 11/2 at the earliest meaning he is out against Montreal. ...
DiPietro's injury reveals the NHL's broken injury policy
Puck Daddy —
... "a lower body injury Saturday night unrelated to his previous injuries." He's since been placed on injured reserve -- announced yesterday, retroactive to Sunday -- with writers like Logan unable to inform their readers about the severity of the injury, the exact nature of the injury or a timetable for return. ...
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