A few events since Rick DiPietro's last start
by Dominik on Jan 8, 2010 6:15 AM EST
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PrintBarring freak injury that one should never rule out with this club, it sounds all but certain that Rick DiPietro will get his first NHL start since Jan. 2, 2009, either tonight in Dallas or tomorrow in Phoenix. We'll find out when the tea leaves are properly examined this morning, or else when the Islanders decide to give it a proper announcement (Ha!).
What follows are things that have happened since DiPietro's last NHL start, a loss in Phoenix in which he allowed five goals, saved 28 of 33 (that's good for .848), and physically if not verbally told us that something was still wrong:
- The U.S. inaugurated a black president (no, really!), whose first order of business was putting a tourniquet on a financial mess so bad, it might prevent the NHL salary cap from going up next season. (Perish the thought. Now sell us your cap problems for cheap.)
- Playing for the two blue and orange NHL franchises who dominated the 1980s (and showed me what hockey at Heaven's Bourne would be like), Dwayne Roloson has gone a combined 40-25-12. He's also turned 40, while looking 33.
The point is having fun with Islanders hockey. DiPietro's pending return -- that sure counts as fun, no?
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“Lost” probably did something, but that show jumped the shark in seasons 2-3, so I don’t know. (Did that one guy and that one girl ever kiss or something? Did the creators change the rules a twelfth and thirteenth time?)
thought you were a fan? jumped the shark? we’re not talking about Heroes, Dom, we’re talking about lost!
why isn't #16 hanging in the rafters?
Hee hee, I was (am less so?) a fan for sure, but they ticked me off when they went through their mid-series crisis of being … lost. But really I just had to get that dig in because a few friends and I go back and forth over what they should have done with the show, and whether the creators intentionally misled viewers about what was possible in the Lost universe.
The same friends tried to get me into Heroes, but it didn’t take; sounds like I made a better decision on that one?
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yes, heroes season 1 was great, then it fell apart, complete with alternate realities it was as if they hit the reset button and began re-developing characters… i still watch but now i let a few episodes build up on the dvr…
lost had a down year in there sure, nothing happened and no questions were answered, but the writers admitted they didn’t know how long they needed to stretch the series, once ABC gave them the end-date, it kicked back in gear and has rolled nicely since
why isn't #16 hanging in the rafters?
fucking Heroes
Season 1 was incredible. One of the best seasons of TV, ever. Season 2 was okay. Season 3 utter garbage. And I’ve finally given up.
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That would be like Scott claiming they’re the best brand of facial tissue. It’s Kleenex, and then it’s everything else.
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Hopefully tonight is the night
Just hoping that they play him tonight and let us see what we have here. By the recaps of his games in Bridgeport it seems like he was physically good, just had some rust. Which is very understandable.
Jay Leno got bumped, started a new show that didn’t do so hot, and is now already angling to get his old slot back. Does Mike Milbury run NBC?
No, if Milbury ran NBC Leno would have been traded to CBS for Andy Rooney.
I have an ego larger than Mikko Koskinen
Great response! I always throw up in my mouth a little bit when I see Milbury on TV. How can anyone hire this boob as a hockey "expert’??
Same reason anyone gets on TV, I guess: Willing to say anything.
I hate seeing him, but as a TV talking head he occasionally makes me laugh at least. So many commentators are so dull and cliche-filled, I’d almost prefer every panel just be made up of grumpy ex-coaches grinding their axes. They don’t often make sense, but it’d be fun in a voyeurism sort of way.
I’d take a panel of MacTavish, Keenan, Milbury … and one good reporter who can shame them every 30 seconds.
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Reminds me, a couple of weeks ago I was in Rhode Island and watching the Bruins play Toronto on NESN. Milbury is their version of Stan Fischler except instead of being knowledgeable and insightful he’s bad, really really bad. Their whole broadcast team was awful. Blatant homers, nothing intelligent to say, calling Mike Komisarek a coward for going after one of the B’s (Really?). It made me appreciate the quality broadcaster we get in NYC, all three teams not just the Islanders’ team.
I have an ego larger than Mikko Koskinen
by David Hanssen on Jan 8, 2010 12:20 PM EST up reply actions
i still dream that one day he and joe micheletti have a head on collision on their way to a game (each driving sep. cars – no innocents injured of course) and not dead mind you, just make them unable to work on tv
kovalchuk was tripped in OT last night, Sam Rosen calls it a bad missed call, and Micheletti actually giggled and joked about it he was so happy – a rel pro
why isn't #16 hanging in the rafters?
I dunno what happened to Micheletti. Does James Dolan giving you a dump truck full of money turn you from a very good, intelligent and insightful color guy to what he is now? It’s almost hard to remember how he was when he was the Islander’s color guy back in the day (4 years ago). Kinda like how alot of people don’t realize howie was the one shouting Mateau!!! Mateau!!! Mateau!!! back in 94
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by David Hanssen on Jan 8, 2010 1:31 PM EST up reply actions
Are you SURE Milbury doesn't run NBC?
Latest NBC statement:
"Jay Leno is one of the most compelling entertainers in the world today."
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Looks like DP is getting the start tonight:
http://islanders.nhl.com/club/page.htm?id=59682&navid=DL|NYI|home
I cant believe it
We have waited so long, I cant believe this is actually happening.
I just wonder if Im going to be with Rick the way I was with the awesome yet oft-concussed Kenny Jonsson. Any time Kenny took a bad spill and hit himself anywhere abouve the knees my heart wound up in my thoat and I was screaming OH MY GOD, THIS IS IT.
Sigh. I dont want it to be like that with Rick. But it IS going to be that way tonight. I hope it doesnt last, but…
Let Us Go, Islanders!
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But it IS going to be that way tonight. I hope it doesnt last, but…
tonight
tomorrow
and every day for the next 12 years…
why isn't #16 hanging in the rafters?
the next 12 years
Rick has 10.5 left on his contract- are you implying he is getting it extended? ;)
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by TheMetalChick on Jan 8, 2010 3:31 PM EST up reply actions
Any time Kenny took a bad spill and hit himself anywhere above the knees my heart wound up in my thoat and I was screaming OH MY GOD, THIS IS IT.
LOL.
Yep. When Roloson is here, I can handle that. Hopefully the other goalies in the system will one day make me feel as secure. Damn, this is gonna be weird.
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It really is going to be SO weird. I dont even know how I am going to feel about it.
Plus, the Stars are one of the very few western conference teams I care about, so its wild that it worked out to be this game.
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by TheMetalChick on Jan 8, 2010 3:34 PM EST up reply actions
the Stars are one of the very few western conference teams I care about
Mole!
I always get a kick out of people’s cross-conference interests. Some great combinations out there. God I love hockey.
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LOL!!!! My mom lived in Dallas years ago and I really liked it there- that might have something to do with it. The other western team I care about? The The Oilers. My Isles friends who are old schoolers REALLY dont understand that one… but to me, someone who didnt become a real hockey fan until the 90s, the Oil and the Islanders are like blue and orange twins separated at birth- with one of them being raised in Canada. The dozens of trades between us have only enforced that feeling.
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by TheMetalChick on Jan 8, 2010 6:23 PM EST up reply actions
No doubt. I feel that Oil-Isle connection, too. Maybe it’s because of my age during the Cup years — I hated, HATED Gretzky at the time, and will always prefer Lemeiux — but in the years since I came to appreciate the franchises’ parallel fortunes, and the fact that they were the bearers of two of the greatest teams anyone has seen in the last 10 I mean 20 wow, time is flying 30 years.
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Wait...
Your telling me now TWO former Islander coaches have won Stanley Cups? Lavaloette and Bylsma?
Thanks for firing competent people Mike.
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