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
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.
dead weeks written
Who would have thought? Everyone had us written off for dead two weeks ago.
help hopefully olympic road sure until
We have a long road until the Olympic break, and hopefully we can keep getting those wins, ... It's one game, and I'm sure it's going to help me out a little bit. But at the end of the day I've still got 40 more before the break.
badly harder needed points
We have to play harder with more desperation. We needed those two points badly but we couldn't get them.
matter opposite spectrum
We went from one end of the spectrum to the opposite in a matter of two games.
eyes parade
We were going to give him a ticker-tape parade when he showed up, ... but I couldn't keep my eyes open.
change downward step time
We're on a downward slide, and things have to change quickly. It's frustrating. Every time we take a step in the right direction, we immediately take a step backward.
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.
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.
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.
digging hole ourselves points
We need all the points we can get right now. We've kind of been digging ourselves a hole and any way we can get the two points, we'll take them.
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.
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.
deserve games instinct killer level needed second teams took
This was one of those games that we didn't deserve to lose. They took it to another level in the second period. We needed to have that killer instinct and put teams away.