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
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.
answer business focused honestly month
I honestly don't know; I can't answer that. It's not something I want to think about right now. I've still got a whole month and I'm focused on business at home.
good guys knocked likely reached took wood
I put it on target, but there were a lot of guys back there. I took a look up, and even if I got good wood on it, it was likely to be knocked down before it reached the net.
talk talking trash
If you want to talk about trash talking, you're talking Snowy. He's one of the best.
lay love pride regardless time
If you have any pride or love for this team, you can't go out and lay eggs. This is a big time of year, regardless of the situation. We've got to come out and play hard.
against beat good losses turned undefeated
I don't know if things have to be turned around. We had two losses against two good teams. You can go undefeated in the preliminaries and still get beat in the quarterfinals. As long as we get there, we'll be OK.
against bottle devils efforts explain fighting guess match playoff teams
I don't know how to explain it. If we could bottle up these efforts against the Devils and use them every night, we wouldn't be fighting for a playoff spot. Some teams you just match up well with and I guess this is one of them.
enjoying expected fans fast game guys hope league power pumped series shots
I don't know if the league expected it to be this fast and upbeat, ... I don't know if it was just this series - how pumped up the guys were. But every game you see now is 35 shots and 10 power plays. It's a whole new game and I hope the fans are enjoying it.
doctor
I don't know. I'm going to go see a doctor (Sunday).
dead weeks written
Who would have thought? Everyone had us written off for dead two weeks ago.
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.
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.
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.