Rick DiPietro has this Islanders warning for Ilya Sorokin’s rehab
NY Post
An Islanders goalie signed a long-term contract and got hurt.
Rick DiPietro has heard that one before.
“If older Rick could go back and talk to young, dumb Rick, he would tell him to just take your time and relax,” DiPietro told The Post in a phone call Tuesday. “There’ll still be games when you get back.”
He was speaking in the context of Ilya Sorokin, who underwent back surgery this summer and is expected to return sometime during training camp.
The specifics of Sorokin’s procedure, as well as its timing, are unknown, but general manager Lou Lamoriello has said Sorokin is skating on his own and isn’t expected to miss time in the regular season.
The Russian superstar is in the first year of an eight-year, $66 million contract signed in July 2023, and the Islanders’ fortunes largely hinge on both his availability and level of play.
With the Yankees on an impressive run of mostly correct decisions, there’s some reason to leave them alone and just let the best team in the American League continue to roll. But they did raise serious doubt and leave room for suggestions (and even ridicule) following maybe the most inexplicable decision of this season, or any season.
The Giants have never been 0-2 under Brian Daboll, until now. They were 2-0 and flying high in 2022 and 1-1 after a rousing comeback in Arizona in 2023. So, this represents a low point as far as early-season difficulties for Daboll and the Giants. They had no business beating the Vikings in the opener and no business losing to the Commanders in Week 2. But here they are.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Harrison Butker kept making a lonely walk to midfield after each quarter Sunday to check on the direction of the wind, which tends to swirl inside Arrowhead Stadium. He did it one last time during the 2-minute warning, when his Chiefs were trailing the Bengals by two and trying to give him a winning field-goal attempt.