Rick DiPietro To Have Sports Hernia Surgery; UPDATE: More Knee Swelling

because hearing this news would’ve made your brain literally explode.

No dreaming of a heroic April return?!

Studio job meme: “Isn’t Boston a great hockey market?”

at least until the team got close to the cap. Otherwise you’d be paying him till 2029 if you bought him out before the start of next season

I couldn’t find anything about that.

I just wish that he was given a year in the AHL to rehab instead of being on the NHL team muddying the water.

I dont feel sorry for a guy making millions while sitting on his ass.

I needed that.

Ilya makes considerably more then DP for a few years of his deal

If he has been doing everything he can, which it seems so, then how hard is it for the guy that never quits on the team and never quits trying to be a crippled mess all the time. He as always stood up for us, the fans, and for this organization when no one else would. He wants to be healthy so badly, it can be hard to watch. There have been plenty of times when I wished that he would call it quits, but to think about its depressing. However, he has the rest of life to think about. He cannot live the rest of his life in pain because he wanted to help the Islanders win ten more games. Hopefully, he takes a nice pension and a job with the Islanders and heads to the beach; because, DP, I don’t want you to end up in pain or worse for the rest of your life. Its just not worth it.

If Garth is serious about RDP being on this team next season…I may just change my feelings on Garth. He’d have to be an utter moron.

I wonder if this means RDP talked to Staple without going through the PR dept., and Snow’s comment was just reaction to Staple?

interesting because if it was gonna be the same, why not just retweet Staple’s stuff or just a quick couple of lines about it. I mean, they’re not going to go through the history and the contract and the jokes and shit…could be done in 5 minutes really.

if they want him to retire, and he wants the money (aka buyout).

I'm sure that would work out in our favor.

That his brain will removed and placed inside a giant robot body and that Krang DiPietro will start for the Islanders next Thursday in Philadelphia.

Seriously, Rick. You gotta hang ’em up. For the future of the team you care so much about. The best thing you can do is step aside.

today is Friday the 13th…congrats on the coincidence DP.

one party or another is going to be a little screwed either way. Honestly, you can’t even really be sure he’d be successful at BPT. And even if his play was adequate, it’s still huge stretch to think he can give them even 30 starts. If there’s an owner mandated salary structure, I doubt CW would want or be able to spend additional coin to pick up more players.

The buyout would be 1.5 million until 2031. He may not be interested in retiring (he’d lose money), the insurance doesn’t even really apply here because nothing is really keeping him from playing…just not playing well, and they’re different injuries all the time.

Ryan O’Reilly.

SITUATION39 needs to start the season in Bridgeport and EARN his way back onto the big club.

I honestly don’t even see this as an option anymore. Like you say Montoya/Poulin is the ideal tandem for the NHL next year, and we have two other guys we need to develop at BP in Nilsson and Koskinen. If he really is adamant about continuing, maybe the best way to convince him to retire is to send him to BP and not play him.

After a night’s sleep on this, I’m taking a new view. This is all bluster to get him the insurance money. He’s going to retire this summer, but they are going through the motions so he can get his money when he’s unable to perform during his rehab.

/sticks head firmly in the sand

I’d rather start the seaon with TWO goalies and the best option will play, so long, of course, as we have some viable depth options at the Bridge.

That doesn’t count for the Islanders not having a Lease. They should be worth considerably more around 2015

NYIslanders @NYIslanders 1m
On DiPietro, Capuano said it was tough news and that he had the opportunity to wish him luck. #isles

Chris Botta @ChrisBottaNHL 4m
#Isles revealing DiPietro has knee swelling is a way bigger deal than the hernia. Knees are a chronic issue for him.

I was pretty confident I was going to see Poulin at the game tonight.

NYIslanders @NYIslanders 7m
Capuano said as a coaching staff it was decided that Nabokov had the proper rest and would give the team the best chance to win. #isles

But maybe a FanPost explaining it would get more people to see it?

Seriously, I’d like to hear more about this. Although, if you’re right, and please don’t take this the wrong way, but it’s sad that the team doctors wouldn’t figure this out first.

and maybe you can’t answer it…I’ve certainly never been in a pro locker room, but how the eff does it take the medical staff over a month to figure this out? Especially if it is know that hernia manifests as groin pain?

I mean, don’t they do an MRI or something on the groin? If it’s that sore for that long, don’t they look at other things? Did the medical team diagnose this as a groin and or did he just tell them his groin hurts and they leave it at that? What treatment were they doing on the groin and how come they didn’t notice that he wasn’t responding or that he was further hurting himself?

This type of medical treatment and news is BS to me (not yours, I mean their handling of things). I guess essentially what we are saying here is the team misdiagnosed a sports hernia. Maybe that’s why they released it at 5:30.