{"id":1890,"date":"2013-07-02T12:19:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T12:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/isles-place-dipietro-on-waivers\/"},"modified":"2013-07-02T12:19:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T12:19:00","slug":"isles-place-dipietro-on-waivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/isles-place-dipietro-on-waivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Isles place DiPietro on waivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uniondale, NY (Sports Network) &#8211; The New York Islanders took the first step towards using a compliance buyout on goaltender Rick DiPietro, placing him on unconditional waivers Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old DiPietro will be owed $1.5 million over the next 16 years, but the buyout will not count against the team&#8217;s salary cap, according to Newsday.<\/p>\n<p>DiPietro, who was the top overall selection in 2000 after just one season at Boston University, has compiled a 130-136-28 record with eight ties over his injury-plagued 12-year career. He has played in just 50 games since the start of the 2008-09 season, including three contests during the truncated 2013 schedule.<\/p>\n<p>The Islanders signed DiPietro to a 15-year, $67 million contract in the summer of 2006, but he&#8217;s been unable to live up to his potential and the terms of the mega-deal due to a litany of concussions, hip and knee injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uniondale, NY (Sports Network) &#8211; The New York Islanders took the first step towards using a compliance buyout on goaltender Rick DiPietro, placing him on unconditional waivers Tuesday. The 31-year-old DiPietro will be owed $1.5 million over the next 16 years, but the buyout will not count against the team&#8217;s salary cap, according to Newsday. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}