DiPIETRO IS ALREADY IN MINNESOTA
Details on the NYI’s new injury-recovery program
Dear Readers: To those commenting here and elsewhere that despite Semin, Backstrom, Green and Co. the difference between the Capitals’ four-year plan and what the Islanders have embarked on is a primo star like Alexander Ovechkin, here is my response.
Exactly.
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When Scott Gordon reports that Rick DiPietro will re-join the team in Minnesota on Friday, thanks to Minny-based writer Fiona Quick we now have a better understanding why.
That’s because DiPietro is already in Minnesota. And, according to the Quickster, so are Radek Martinek, Frans Nielsen, Bruno Gervais and Mike Sillinger.
As Mike Comrie did last week, the quartet is working out at the MN Made Ice Center in Edina, Minnesota. They are receiving treatment from a device called the ARP Trainer, the ARP an acronym for Accelerated Recovery Performance. The Islanders have not said a word about this latest development in their training program.
“It’s a different kind of stim machine that helps fire up the muscle groups,” Comrie told me today after practice. “I can’t say that it works for everyone, because I don’t know. But I do know that it worked for me.”
From the ARP website: “ARP is a comprehensive, all encompassing series of new and unique therapy and physical training protocols devised to be used in conjunction with a unique neuromuscular electrical stimulation device. The combination of this new device and these new training protocols can be used along a wide spectrum, from accelerated recovery for musculoskeletal injury and pain to enhanced physical performance in elite strength and speed training.”
Alrighty then. We know we all live in a small town here and cherish our humble surroundings and unsophisticated technology, but seriously - we gotta get one of these in New York!
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Practice Notes: Scott Gordon gave Joey MacDonald the day off…Everyone that was with the team yesterday was here today, including Ben Walter. Comrie and Kyle Okposo put in extra time and remain possibilities for the road trip…
Ken Morrow, back on the Island for another week of assisting with the defense, huddled privately with Gordon on the ice for a while. Reading Kenny’s lips from our viewpoint, we could swear we saw him utter the word, “Bouwmeester.”
Just kiddin’ around, folks.
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Congrats…to former Sound Tigers and Peoria (AHL) head coach Dave Baseggio on being named a pro scout for the Anaheim Ducks.
In his time in the Islanders organization as AHL head coach and also assistant on the Calder Cup finalist in 2001-02, Baseggio (left, in dark suit) worked with Trent Hunter, Rick DiPietro, Steve Valiquette, Eric Godard, Sean Bergenheim, Wade Dubielewicz, Chris Campoli. Bruno Gervais, Blake Comeau, Jeremy Colliton and a cast of thousands.
Thumbs Up: Islanders players were making their annual visits to the pediatric centers of various Long Island hospitals today after practice. The team will be represented by at least two players each at Schneider Children’s Hospital, Nassau University Medical Center, Winthrop University Hospital, Stony Brook Hospital, Good Samaritan Hospital, St. Mary’s Children’s Hospital and North Shore University Hospital.
Winthrop was a godsend for Point Blank son Cole Botta, born 8 years ago this week with his twin brother, Luke. Cole was in Winthrop for five weeks after his birth and could not have been in better hands. You can read a lovely story Greg Logan wrote about Cole’s later challenge two years ago here. Thankfully, today he’s doing better than ever.
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35 Responses to “DiPIETRO IS ALREADY IN MINNESOTA
Details on the NYI’s new injury-recovery program”
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…then we need to do as Brian Burke says and ‘descend rapidly’, or some variation of those words! Right? It would appear we are on the way….
Lars, what does that have to do with this article? You cant tell me that there IS an Ovechkin sitting atop of the draft this upcoming year, and the Isles arent going to pickm 1st overall, anyway. But if I could live as comfortably in a dreamworld as so many of my fellow Isles fans can and do, Id certainly pick a better dream… no offense!
An “ARP Trainer”?
Let me guess….they’ve got everyone walking around the Edina Mall pushing a walker that’s hooked up to the magic box, while drooling out of one side of their mouths.
Some youth movement….half the team is in ARP training.
Hey Chris TMC, please, let us dream at least a little bit! LOL
And to Islander505 - Good one!
There was a great article about the device in the Sept. issue of USA Hockey by Greg Anzelc. And yes, why wouldn’t we have one of these facilities closer to NY.
A very happy birthday to the Botta boys.
CB, I hope everything’s going well with your son! We all cherish our children and should never take them for granted; Not only children but any Human Being!!
Go ISLES!
God Bless!
Chris TMC,
I guess i should have prefaced my comment that it was in response to the ‘dear reader’ portion and not the rehab info
3 points in the last 10 games makes me think there will be a new coach for the new year.
no ovechkin’s crosby’s, or malkin’s in this draft aside, i don’t think any primo stars are going to want to come here (even with a new facility) without a better level of skill than what we can ice right now. And i don’t mean any offense to the current isles. we are what we are man and it’s rough sailing at present
It should read AARP trainer, tha’s what we need.
Wow, I feeel a Rocky III Siberian music montage of training coming on…
And imagine if the Caps had not won the lottery and AO went to that year’s worst team…The Pens. Crosby and Ovechkin!
(Remember, Crosby was always going to Pitt. He was Bettman’s gift to Lemieux for submarining his own players union during the lockout. He was still an owner/player then.)
The ARP is a Russian thing. Bret Hedican uses it and swears by it. He says it has extended his career. The machine costs about $15,000. Maybe that is too much for the Islanders to pay for one of their very own.
eklund says that sundin is a ranger. $50 says that they still dont win LOL
“..a unique neuromuscular electrical stimulation device…”
That may help explain the good season and the newfound popularity that MAB (SHOTS!!) is having with the Wild.
Pay close attention to our game against the Wild on Friday. MAB (SHOTS!!) appears to be wearing some kind of collar with small antenna, and if you look VERY CLOSELY at the screen, I’m pretty sure that Jacques Lemaire is carrying some kind of hand held transmitter behind the bench.
I’m sure Wang could get one on credit.
I don’t like the words:
Accelerated Recovery Performance (trainer)
in the same paragraph with the name:
Rick DP.
There’s a bad vibe I get when those words get too close together.
Electrical stim is not altogether unheard of. Heck, I had to see a chiropractor and he had something that was designed to feed low-level current through my lumbar region. I can tell you that it worked very well. After a few visits I was in great shape; I haven’t had any back pain in the year since (pray God I stay that way).
I’m not an elite athlete of course, and this machine sounds a little different from the standard, especially when partnered with advanced therapy and PT techniques that I don’t know. But if the basic stuff got me back into shape (I was 34 at the time) the advanced process should work well for the Isles. Let’s hope so.
maybe we can clone the players from the dynasty, and alter there genes to make them unbreakable. then in 20 years… …BANG! meet the new Boss,,, same as the old Boss…
Jon @ 9 - GMG’s proclaimed commitment to a plan and constant preaching of stability makes me believe there will not be a new coach in the new year
Great accelerated recovery machine for DP! Guess he’ll be back on IR soon. DP listen closely “My team sucks! I should take two years off and come back when we are close to being better.”
Chris Botta: “…..Alexander Ovechkin, here is my response. Exactly.
Chris, you know as well as I that if the Islanders were ever in the position to draft an Alexander Ovechkin caliber player, they would trade down. I’m sorry but it’s the Truth.
The real reason why they went for Bailey after trading down multiple times was that he would be sign-able for a cheaper rate than a top five pick.
You can have the second coming of Gretzky sitting out there and the Islanders would take a pass and then lay some garbage on us about how they feel they got good quality at #9 blah blah blah.
You know the drill.
Ya, I have been hooked up to numerous devices like this since my SUV flipped. I have a feeling this might be the next generation in it’s technology.
CB,
I’m just curious. Last night’s third period gives me some hope that maybe with the right personnel this thing could work.
How long does the assessment last? What are the milestones? I hope the goals aren’t just, suck, suck, suck, cup.
What are the arguments against rebuilding with youth and a conventional sytem of solid “D”, and three periods of enthusiastic hockey?
Both Pitt(Olcyk) and Washington(Hanlon) had barely serviceable coaches while they were “rebuilding”. Is this the “MODEL” that Snow is following.
Because then I can stand and applaud. Because he’s found a Cold Beverage Machine of a coach.
CBM: The thing that just sits there and makes money while your operation grows around it. When everybody from the President to the lowest shipping clerk has kicked the hell out of it becasue it doesn’t work for ****… you replace it with a really cool one that offers snacks, beverages and if you’re willing to spend some money…ICE CREAM.
I hope we can get an ICE CREAM machine coach next year…
I refuse to talk about “draft picks” until May… but has anybody thought what happens if Hedman and taveres get busted for sticking up a McDonald’s? Why are we pinning our hopes on two guys who have never played an NHL game. The draft is the draft, but without the right coaching and building of a WINNING DYNAMIC you can draft Phillips, Hossa, Chuinard, Havlat, Volchenkov and Spezza… and still not win a Stanley cup. You can, really… look it up!
I still vote for a “D” where Witt and Sutton barely ever see the offensive zone, and when they do they has a collar on that zaps them if they get below a faceoff dot.
haha yeah right. your comparing ovechkin to the possible 5th overall pick! so yeah we trade down and get malkin. o no!!! truth my buttocks
8 Lars on Dec 17th, 2008 13:45:42 said:
“I guess i should have prefaced my comment that it was in response to the ‘dear reader’ portion and not the rehab info”
I get that, what I dont get is the assumption that the Islanders are going to be able to draft a player like that. I dont believe they will be.
And LOL @ Vlad
they didnt keep havlat and hossa and im not sure they were aiming for rebuilding otherwise they wouldnt of traded them
They DRAFTED them.. that was my point… I could have said, “you can draft Bertuzzi, Lindros (cough), Redden/Berard, Dumont, Luongo, Rupp, Connolly, and DP(?)/Torres) and 10 years later be 18 games under .500 before January 1st.
there are no guarentees in hockey. It is more likely, though, that a team that wins today, and upgrades through well scouted draft picks, timely free agents and good coaching throughout the system will WIN.
And you don’t have to go very far for a pretty good example.
Poor attendance… no problem.
Need a new building… no problem.
All star goalie on the mend… no problem.
Rebuilding…?
No Ovechkin…?
No Crosby?
Boring as hell.. they were!
Do they WIN! YES!
It’s time to tank then to improve our chances at getting Tavares.
Well said JP!!
Solid coaching throughout the organization is paramount in this sport, and that starts with the big club. Do ex-goalies ever make for good coaches? I’m not saying Gordon is the guy to turn this ship around, but lets at the very least give him a chance. I mean he has gone the entire season without the best (and most important) player on the team.
ARP trainer eh?
How about a neurological adjustment to Rick DiPietro so the bastid can wait till he really is 100%?
Accelerate, yes. get back soon Ricky, there won’t be anything to worry about because you’ll be in tip top shape. This longtime Islander fan is dreading, yes dreading the next time he comes out of the net when we’re down 2-3 goals and plays the puck only to head fake and wait to make a pass while our defense and forwards try to figure out his next move. Just get healthy Ricky, that’s all we care about. Only RUSH should be on our ipods. Great band.
Wow, we DO need one of them here!
Glad to see Ken Morrow’s back and I hope he can help them make some sense out of that gray area known to our team as the defensive zone, yikes.
Great third period last night, eh? Practically erases the last three nightmares..I mean games..from the memory to see that spark again, however fleeting it may turn out to be.
Glad everything worked out well for Cole, CB.
LOL, I guess “one of them” could mean that machine OR an Ovechkin.
Neil, very funny comment - but it was Rocky 4! Haha.
Do ya think the OVERSPENT system will be ditched and we start trapping once His Royal Richard is back in net prematurely again?
I bet Morrow was outlining the trap system to Gorton who only knows hockey one way and one way only.
Rick is back, protected and his stats are helped, we don’t score, Rick learns and forgets to let the defense handle pucks (he was AWFUL when he played this year at stealing fom his teammates!) and we draft third or fourth. Sounds like a plan!
I want Hedman, thus I want Overspent System 100%.