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Photo credit: Jim McIsaac | Rick DiPietro #39 of the New York Islanders walks back to the locker room after warming up before playing against the Carolina Hurricanes. (Jan. 26, 2011)
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Zenon Konopka has plenty of friends around the NHL, around his native Ontario and around the hockey world in general who view this latest bit of Islanders "drama," as Konopka put it, as just the latest example of the minor-league operation the Islanders run.
Those friends have wondered to Konopka why on earth his team would claim Evgeni Nabokov on waivers. They side with the suspended goaltender...
