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Isles can begin looking ahead; will DiPietro be ready?

In hindsight, it's not surprising that extreme youth and inexperience combined with injuries totaling 581 man games lost produced the last-place season the Islanders concluded at the Coliseum.

The Isles gave up at least five goals in nine of their last 12 games, which underlined how much they especially missed goaltender Rick DiPietro, who was limited to five games by a left knee that did...

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