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Thursday, January 11, 2007
Thrashers not panicking
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
We’re here in New Jersey, where the team had a lively morning practice at Montclair State University. By all accounts it was a good practice, a hoarse Bob Hartley seemed pretty happy with his team’s effort afterwards. There were few signs that his was a team in the midst of a four-game losing streak, and a team blowing late leads.
“We’re not happy about it,” Marian Hossa said after practice. “Everybody is aware of it - we’re playing well for two periods, but there’s always something in the third period.”
But it was an upbeat group. I didn’t sense any panic, and Slava Kozlov said there wasn’t any.
“No, no, no,” he said. “I don’t think so. We just need to win our next couple games, and our confidence will get back and we’ll go from there.”
New Jersey poses a challenge, anytime you’re facing Martin Brodeur, goals don’t come easy. And the Devils are 14-4-3 at home. But they did lose to a 15-win St. Louis team (which is actually 7-2-1 in its last 10), so maybe this will be the game to get things back on track.
