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Thursday, February 1, 2007
No room for Vish?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The Thrashers will be sitting Vitaly Vishnevski again today, the second consecutive game he’s been a healthy scratch, after playing every single game of the season before that.
I spoke with him after the morning skate, and he’s saying all the right things — he’s working hard to get back in the lineup, etc. etc. As much as I would have liked him to demand a trade or something, and stir up some controversy for me to write about, he did anything but. He did say that coach Bob Hartley told him that he expected to get him back in the lineup shortly.
So, while depth is good, can a veteran like Vishnevski continue to sit? How would you handle the glut of defensemen?
And all you Thrashers fans calling for Don Waddell to make a trade, well he made one this afternoon. He traded forwards Kyle Wanvig and Stephen Baby to Tampa Bay for defeseman Andy Delmore and forward Andre Deveaux. Both Delmore and Deveaux were assigned to Chicago (AHL). So there you go.
Hartley had a pretty good line after the morning skate. I asked him if the lack of regulation wins was an issue, since most of the Thrashers January wins came in overtime/shootouts.
“We don’t refuse any points,” he said. “We’re just like the Salvation Army, we take everything.”
Lastly, the Islanders will be starting Mike Dunham in goal tonight against the Thrashers. If you can think all the way back to the last time the Thrashers played the Islanders (Friday), you’ll remember that the former Thrasher relieved an ineffective Rick DiPietro and played well. Islanders coach Ted Nolan said that was a major part of sending him out there again tonight.
“He knows those guys pretty well,” Nolan said.
