Rick DiPietro was sitting in the media lounge at Barclays Center at 5 p.m. last Thursday, waiting for the Islanders’ game against the Stars to begin but starting to run out of ways in which to prepare for his job as an MSG analyst.
That was no surprise, since he had been there since around 2.
“Just hanging out,” he said with a shrug, still two hours before game time.
Such is his new lifestyle on days he works Islanders games, a split shift necessitated by the Jan. 17 move of his ESPN New York radio show from the noon to 3 p.