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
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.
game olympic pulled team whether
You don't want to get pulled in a game whether you make the Olympic team or not.
brutal stayed
That was a brutal move, I should've just stayed in the net. That was embarrassing.
afford behind drop further games ourselves putting third tough
It's a tough loss. Games this big you can't afford to drop like that in the third period. We did it again, and we're just putting ourselves further and further behind the 8-ball.
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.
good lose shots
A win's a win. To see 60 shots and lose wouldn't be a good feeling. I'll take this any day.
good recipe
If we could use that same recipe for other games, we'd be in good shape.
bad kindness move
I kind of made a bad move there.
bad expect fans possibly ranger silence third words
I can't put it into words. ... It's as disappointing as I could possibly feel. There were a lot of Ranger fans here tonight. It's tough, but you have to expect that.... It's too bad we couldn't silence them in the third period.
corner feeling group guys hear mike olympic playing pride strong time town walk
I'm from the same town (Winthrop, Mass.) as Mike Eruzione, so every time you walk around the corner that's all you hear about is Mike and the '80 Olympic team. I think this group of guys has a strong feeling of pride about playing for our country.
point points satisfied spot taking
It's still a point lost. We're in no spot where we can be satisfied taking just one point. We need to take as many points as we can get.
anytime fire gotta guy pride stay
Anytime you see a guy with that much fire and that much pride stay down on the ice, it's gotta be pretty serious.
excuse fans good hard hockey owe played playing trying win wish
No, there's no excuses. I don't think we played as well as we did in Montreal. I don't have any answers, I wish I did. It's not a good game. We have to keep playing hard. We owe it to our fans and to each other to play hard and keep trying to win hockey games.
random time
It's random testing, right, ... They see me and every time it's, 'OK Rick, you're up.'