Filed under: Islanders, NHL Injuries, Minor League Hockey
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. -- Rick DiPietro's first rehabilitation game in the minors was a success on Saturday night because he made it through two periods with his health intact. Otherwise, DiPietro -- who gave up three goals -- learned he needs more game action before a return to the NHL."There's still a lot of work to be done," said DiPietro, after Bridgeport's 7-3 win over Springfield.
Suiting up for the Bridgeport Sound Tigers of the American Hockey League, DiPietro allowed three goals on just ten shots over those two periods in his first game in almost a year. His first period was a breeze as he effortlessly handled all three easy shots he faced, but the second period exposed the rust on the 28-year-old goaltender.
Facing his first challenging shot of the game, DiPietro allowed a harmless, traffic-free slap shot from Springfield defenseman Johan Motin to sail through his five-hole. Springfield then received goals from Geoff Paukovich and Bill Thomas. For the period, DiPietro allowed three goals on seven shots.
Filed under: Casey Mears, Clint Bowyer, Kasey Kahne, Kurt Busch, Sprint Cup, Joey Logano
Kasey Kahne might have had the only car to really challenge Jimmie Johnson on the longer runs Saturday night at Lowe's Motor Speedway, but a late pit stop and a bad set of tires didn't let that situation play out."The tires we took on the last stop shook and didn't turn," said Kahne after the race in which he led 67 laps. "I guess that was our bad set for the night."
That didn't mean that Kahne was making excuses for coming up short with a third-place finish -- his best result since a win at Atlanta in September. Instead, he was stating the obvious.
"We were the best car at times, but the final run when it counted, we weren't," said Kahne. "Jimmie [Johnson] showed up and beat us all."
Lu confirmed that the studio is still in business, and is transitioning as it sells a "portion" of its shares to an unnamed third-party company. During this transition, the studio will "suspend all onsite development," while outsourced development will continue on. Lu claims the studio will be fully operational once more, after the transition, and that a number of employees will be offered their positions back in early 2010. The statement promises more details once the transition is finished -- at which point, we'll hopefully learn the true fate of Edge of Twilight.
Edge of Twilight developer FuzzyEyes laid off majority of staff originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:41:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
If you're a fight fan, this is a great month to come to Las Vegas. Over the next four weeks, there are three big MMA cards Sin City needs the help from The Ultimate Fighter 10 Finale, WEC 45 and UFC 108.
How about the deal offered by this Palms? Normally a concert at The Pearl and a one night stay runs $500. Wow! After the rodeo leaves town, the town dies until New Year's week. Clearly this is an attempt to lure someone to town.
It's a strange time in the nation's craziest city with the $8.5 billion MGM City Center opening on Dec. 16 during what essentially is a depression. Meanwhile, one of the city's legendary hotels, Binion's, the original host of the World Series of Poker, just announced it's closing 350 rooms.
On the MMA front, the UFC has likely lost some coverage. The Las Vegas Sun, the smaller of the two Sin City newspapers, just had massive firings. Gone is longtime columnist Ron Kantowski and UNLV basketball beat writer Rob Miech (good move, UNLV just started 6-0 for the first time since 1992-93). The staff is essentially left with Brett Okamoto and Jeff Haney covering the fight game. The paper has made a concerted effort to go more web-based and appeal to a younger audience. It's really the only newspaper site in the country, not using a blog as its MMA source, that posts fight news on a daily basis.
WEC 45, headlined by Ed Ratcliff and Donald Cerrone, faces a stiff challenge on Dec. 19. as Strikeforce rolls out another card in San Jose. Rumored bouts on Showtime include:
Cung Le v. Scott Smith
Josh Thompson v. Gilbert
Melendez
Robbie Lawler v. Trevor Prangley
Matt Lindland v. Ronaldo Souza
Mo Lawal v. Mike Whitehead
That WEC 45 deal is hard to pass up. Fight tickets at The Palms are generally pretty pricey ($254-$504 for TUF 10 this weekend). It's like getting a five-star room for free. That said, the economy in Vegas is so bad that week that you can stay across the street in the much older Gold Coast for $42 a night. Rough times.