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Thursday, February 15, 2007
Hartley: This is time to declare war
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
First of all, great job on the comments yesterday. We broke the century mark for blog comments. Now, I know Dave O’Brien and the Braves bloggers would laugh at that, he gets 100 comments the moment he sneezes on his blog, but we’re still building here. Great work, and there was some really thoughtful stuff (well, most of it). We’ll get there, especially if this team makes the playoffs.
About that. I don’t want to be an alarmist here, but if the Thrashers do manage to drop out of first place (more about that in Saturday’s paper), a spot out of the top eight isn’t too far behind. So today, I want you to make your stand on two points. 1. Will the Thrashers as currently constructed win the Southeast? 2. Make your playoff stand - is this team in or out?
Practice report: There are many days where I think life as an NHL player would be a pretty good one. Especially when I’m walking past Porsches and Bentleys on the way to my Chevy. Today, however, was not one of them. Looks like it was a pretty tough practice, Hartley was skating them hard. It was much easier sitting in the Breakaway Grille with Dan Kamal, Darren Eliot and Jeff Schultz and talking hockey.
Hartley also said that there was a good team meeting before practice, maybe a wakeup call. And his comments after practice were pretty pointed, stuff like: “This is time to declare war. You go to war with warriors, you don’t go with water pistols.”
Steve Rucchin didn’t practice, he’s still having headaches. J.P. Vigier skated without contact. He’s on his way back, although there’s no timetable. Scott Mellanby took the day off for personal reasons.
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