The DiPietro Audio and the rest from "Breakdown Day"
Newsday's Katie Strang reported earlier today DiPietro bristled when confronted with questions about his place on the goaltending depth chart, but both Montoya and Poulin are expected to push him for the starting spot next year.
"The 29-year-old feigned confusion when asked about his competition in training camp, asking "Who are we talking about here?," but the numbers make it abundantly clear.
Montoya led the team in wins with a record of 9-5-5 and finished with a save percentage of .921 and 2.39 goals against average. Before a freak injury in warm-ups ended his season in February, Poulin posted a GAA of 2.44 and save percentage of.924. DiPietro finished last in the league in GAA ( 3.44 ) among all goaltenders with 25 games or more and second to last with a .886 save percentage."
To me, the audio does not sound overly harsh, but DP becomes hushed in response to the previous question...which was similar.
This is out of character for Katie Strang who is generally very conservative in Islander criticism. Make no mistake, while Chris Botta did write a story on this for IPB, the original was not his doing.
Additional interesting answers from PA Parenteau on the differences between Gordon and Capuano and Haley and Gillies were good as well. I have not listened to all of them.
What do you think?
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It days download
(and I’ve only tried it on my phone) but it just opens up in a QuickTime window. Did you click on the “download button”?
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by Keith Quinn on Apr 10, 2011 8:39 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Says
Really should work fine.
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by Keith Quinn on Apr 10, 2011 8:39 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
I guess Strang wants to draw unemployment?
This hit twice within 3 minutes:
@KatieStrangNYI Katie Strang
DiPietro’s 3.44 GAA is worst in league among goalies w/ 25 games or more; .886 save % second to last
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Before that, Erik Hornick:
@ehornick Eric Hornick
Complete DiPietro interview audio posted by #isles http://ow.ly/d/dB2 Ricky still thinks he’s #1, despite 8-14-4, 3.44 GAA 88.6% #NHL
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I've twittered it
But I think they are making a mountain out of a molehill. DP Sounds as confused as me when someone first mentioned this soundbite (Whose the 3rd goalie) and I don’t think he comes off as having an ego.
I just don’t see a goalie whose coming off a 2nd dislocated kneecap (and did it to the knee he didn’t hurt originally) threatening to start in the NHL next year. Poulin was good, but he obviously needed more time in the AHL before he got hurt. And we’ve seen with Mikko this year how much an injury can hold a guy back.
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I go back and forth on it
Tone of voice was clearly upset at first, then agitated for Strang,
Then this
(Whose the 3rd goalie)
You’re not implying that he’s not aware there are two other guys with better numbers than he and another who had a pretty good career up until he came down with waiveritis. It does sound to me more like “like who’s gonna beat me out” than “I’m sorry Ms. Strang to which of my teammates are you referring.”
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It's also possible he thought maybe they were throwing Nabokov into the mix and he simply wanted clarification.
Which would actually make it four, so when they ask about three, it’s easy to see how that can be confusing.
Or it's just understood that Poulin will be in BPT.
I’m not a huge Dp fan, but I don’t think the Botta / Strang intonations are quite fair.
Now that
Is hiliarous
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Tough to say
But I honestly do think DP could’ve been wondering “wait, which guy?” because he happened to watch about four of them rotate through this year. Meanwhile, I think he’s personally closest to Lawson (who’s a free agent), didn’t see much of Mikko but knows he was drafted high, and might think of Poulin as in rehab.
I’m not one to defend DP’s demeanor, but I do think that’s a plausible explanation. To me the bigger shock would be if DP sees himself as the #1 goalie (although his employer has never given him reason to think otherwise).
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To me the bigger shock would be if DP sees himself as the #1 goalie (although his employer has never given him reason to think otherwise)
This is what will hold us back if they dont reassess the situation
After listening to it....
…. I think DP was just high at the time. I mean listen to him… he was practically slurring his speech and didn’t understand a rambling question that mentioned something about optimism, three goalies, next year, and I believe I heard something about pizza.
But seriously, I think that it’s easy to forget about Poulin, because even the majority of people on this site were pretty much assuming he’d need at least another year in minors to be brought along the right way. The fact that he was playing so well up here I think makes us optimistic about him making the big club out of training camp next year, and that’s fine, but his time up here was (to quote Dom) a rather small sample size.
That’s not to say he will or will not compete for a job next training camp, but I can see why DP might have not thought about him when they mentioned the possibility of three goalies.
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by ICanSeeForIslesAndIsles on Apr 10, 2011 10:38 PM EDT reply actions
Come on
How’s DP’s sample size looking? With worse outcome. I know you probably want to believe that about DP, I do too…but to think that he is not aware of one of his teammates, who plays his position, and looked like a goaltending god and spurned a bunch of “KP” chants, I can’t buy that.
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by Keith Quinn on Apr 10, 2011 10:53 PM EDT up reply actions
Hey, I didn't say he was quick on the uptake!
In fact, his slow reaction time was his biggest problem this year. I just think he was thrown for a loop. He didn’t see the question coming.
I refuse to say if he’s washed up or not. Not yet. At the present, there’s no point in begging to keep him or throw him away, because he will most definitely be there at training camp (barring a freak BBQ injury, which we all know is definitely possible with him). I imagine next season, with a whole summer to get better and ready, we will see what DP still has. Until then, I simply don’t have enough to go on. You know… small sample size. /shrugs
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by ICanSeeForIslesAndIsles on Apr 10, 2011 11:07 PM EDT up reply actions
No Konopka?
Why does Eaton get one? Is it just him answering the question “And you are….?” over and over?
I think it would awesome if some previously unknown Dane name Neils Fransen showed up for the WCs and led them to glory.
“Ya, we did real well…oh ya ya, too bad Frans Neilsen couldn’t be here, he is so awesome, right? He’s like my hero and idol. Such a wonderful human being, I know…maybe next year.”
Maybe
they’ll have a separate one for him…can you really capture the essence of Z sans video? Shouldn’t Eaton have picked his crap up months ago?
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by Keith Quinn on Apr 10, 2011 10:58 PM EDT up reply actions
This is very telling if what Im reading here is true
The org still allows DP to think he owns the #1 spot even tho he sucks and we have Monty who deserves the top spot…We have to cut the cancer
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