And the winner is:
Rick DiPietro
You'd think with the money he's getting, he could afford some less-ridiculous pads...
You could have taken your pick of the three nominees, but for the recent signings of two more goalies in Hempstead. First the Islanders picked up Dwayne Roloson, presumably as insurance against the oft-injured 12-year contract man. Fair enough; Roloson was platooned with Fernandez in Minnesota, so it's familiar territory. Then, the Islanders signed Martin Biron, apparently acknowledging that DiPietro is in fact nothing more than dead weight.
Let's look over the numbers. This isn't one of those deals that makes it easier to trade the player when he has one or two years left and is only getting one million or less for that time. DiPietro's contract pays him 4.5 million dollars every year until the end of the 20-21 season. Folks, that's $54,000,000 he's going to get (minus a buyout) for watching hockey games from the pressbox of the Nassau Mausoleum.
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