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  1. Jeff says:
    March 4, 2013 at 10:13 am

    Bridgeport won last year mainly by riding the backs of 2 hot goaltenders. Before the calendar changed from 2011 to 2012, Bridgeport was near the bottom of the AHL. Poulin and Nilsson went on a unbelieveable stretch, evidenced by winning goalies of the month for January and February, and not for Norfolk’s historic unbeaten string to end the season, Bridgeport would have been at the top of the league for points since Jan 1.

  2. hank says:
    March 3, 2013 at 9:39 pm

    NYIFC – YES!! because overall it needed HELP and still does!!

  3. NYIFC says:
    March 2, 2013 at 5:33 pm

    So when Bridgeport won the division last year did you feel the entire organization needed to be looked at?

  4. hank says:
    March 2, 2013 at 4:02 pm

    the entire organization needs to be looked at:

    30 teams in NHL – Islanders – 26th
    30 teams in AHL – Bridgeport – 27th

    Embarrassing on so many levels!!! 5+ years into REBUILD.. eh!!!

  5. NYIFC says:
    March 2, 2013 at 2:31 pm

    nyiballs,

    DiPietro played three games with New York, after 3-2-3 last year.

    This year he was in a 2-2 game entering the third vs Boston before Chara and a breakaway, a 3-2 lead vs Carolina with a lot of pucks bouncing, redirected and trailing 2-1 late third vs Ottawa.

    Kevin Poulin let up just as bad a goal vs Carolina that turned the game, Nabokov a terrible opening goal vs Boston, and a poor second period goal the same as Poulin, who surrendered three or more goals in 11/15 starts before his callup on a Bridgeport team last in goals allowed on a six game losing streak before DiPietro got here.

    As for his mind he said the exact same thing (word for word) to the NY Times 4/6/12 and no writer in North America noticed.

    Dolan’s News12 salesman was the problem here and others noticed it too:b
    http://twominutesforblogging.com/2013/03/01/kevin-maher-the-only-winner-in-dipietros-latest-disaster/

  6. nyiballs says:
    March 2, 2013 at 1:57 pm

    Michael,

    I understand not wanting to draw conclusions after one game… but what about after 5? We still can look back on the NYI/BST exhibition, three NHL games, and this one.

    I know of no other circumstance where any other goaltender at any level has to have every single goal they have given up analyzed and scrutinized to assign blame on either the team or the goaltender. For me, numbers do not lie… Rick has a collective save percentage of roughly 80% in his 5 games as “healthy” this year, and a GAA somewhere in the neighborhood of 5.00.

    At what point do we all just acknowledge that his body and possibly even his mind are no longer able to handle playing professional ice hockey, and just accept that as fact, rather than trying to rationalize why it is something other than the above?

  7. Michael Fornabaio says:
    March 2, 2013 at 1:34 pm

    See the last comment.

  8. NYIFC says:
    March 2, 2013 at 1:14 pm

    Sir, you were credited as having written two special articles for Newsday which is a property of News12LI/Cablevision/Msg this week.

    Your DiPietro Friday game article in the Ct Post appearing in Newdsday is different with anything positive not repeated. Your article a few days ago did not include one word from Niederreiter/Donovan.

    I’m asking why are the articles very different in tone/content and if your work was edited.

    Mr Elsberry used to do editorials with your work long, long ago. I had the impression he was the Ct Post sports editor.

    Thank You

  9. Michael Fornabaio says:
    March 2, 2013 at 11:45 am

    Well. Where to start. The stories are different because they were written separately at different times. I didn’t see more than the first paragraph of the Newsday story but don’t think I’d have anything to say about the editing process. I didn’t deal with Hank Winnicki and have no idea what Chris Elsberry has to do with anything you mention.

  10. NYIFC says:
    March 2, 2013 at 6:29 am

    I’m curious are you personally/professionally offended Dolan owned Newsday (which owns News12LI and Kevin Maher’s employment) presented an article with your name attached to it that is far different than the Ct Post version where anything positive written about DiPietro was selectively edited away? (with nothing positive from your blog entry)

    Seems something stinks here from Dolan editor Hank Winnicki of Newsday or Chris Elsberry allowing such selectively edited coverage be shared which includes your quotes from Niederreiter/Dononvan not appearing in Dolan owned Newsday from your Ct Post article.