Rick DiPietro
Rick DiPietro
Richard W. DiPietro, Jr.is an American former professional ice hockey goaltender. He was the first overall selection by the New York Islanders in the 2000 NHL Entry Draft. DiPietro is currently a NY sports talk show host on ESPN 98.7 FM. He co-hosts the "Hahn & Humpty show" with Alan Hahn. DiPietro signed a groundbreaking 15-year contract in 2006, after which he suffered a string of injuries from 2008 until he was subsequently bought-out by the Islanders on July 2,...
ProfessionHockey Player
Date of Birth19 September 1981
best buddies definitely hockey next playing sad time tough
It's tough. It's definitely tough. It's a sad time for all of us. I thought we were playing our best hockey as a team. It's tough now to see some of your buddies leave. It'll be tough sledding here for the next 21 games.
goal goes hits stick
That goal was awful. It hits my glove, hits my mask, goes off my shoulder, goes off my stick and goes in.
game happened period point seems stuff third turning
It just seems like that kind of stuff has happened to us in the third period when we have a lead. Hopefully, we can use this game as a turning point in the season.
dream exciting great honor kid opportunity ray remember watching
It's a great honor. It's something as a kid you dream about. I remember watching the (1992) Olympics, with Ray LeBlanc. It's an exciting time. It's a great opportunity and a great challenge.
control desperate position seen
This was as desperate as I've seen us this year. We're not in a position to look at the scoreboard. We have to control what we can.
certain fact fans good huge job motivate ourselves owe rivalry
When you're already out of the playoffs, you need to find to certain things to motivate you. I thought we did a good job of stressing the fact that this is a huge rivalry for us and we owe it to our fans and ourselves to come out and put in a good effort.
against build good hard played team win
We responded. We played hard for Brad. It was a good team win against a very good team. We can build on this.
break felt playoff supposed
We felt like this was it, make or break for our playoff run. This was how it's supposed to look all season.
business change coach good great head man needs
We're battling. Everyone thought Mr. Stirling was a good man and a great coach, but in this business change needs to be made sometimes. We're going to do everything we can to make this head coach successful.
bad deserved felt left
Those were just bad games. If you look at them, I don't think we deserved to win. This is one of those games, you look at it, you left everything you had on the ice. You felt like you deserved better.
exposed good moved puck
They moved the puck pretty well and exposed us a bit, ... (Crosby's) a good player, but that's a good line.
allowing chance gave huge national
They gave me a huge chance by allowing me to play for the national program,
stopped
They're a little bright. But they stopped the puck.
catch front opportunity pittsburgh points teams tonight versus
There's a lot of teams we're chasing. It's no different from tonight and even versus Pittsburgh they were important points and it's another opportunity to catch those teams in front of us.