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Sunday, February 18, 2007
Deal or no deal?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Wow, tough one yesterday. I’m on the long commute home from Ottawa, sitting in the Detroit airport waiting to board my flight back to Atlanta. Just finished reading the Sunday Detroit Free Press, where they’re still talking about the Red Wings missing out on Forsberg. Although it wasn’t too bad a weekend for the Wings, who quietly resigned Tomas Holmstrom to a three-year deal.
The Thrashers have the day off today, and to his credit Bob Hartley has always honored the days off he schedules for his players. I’m sure some of you would prefer to hear that the Thrashers were in Duluth working their rears off, but in all honesty, they didn’t play all that bad yesterday. That was by far their best effort since the win in Colorado.
Before the game, Hartley tried to keep the recent slide in perspective:
“If someone would have come to me on day one of training camp, and said ‘Stop everything. Were taking you to 22 games left, [first place is] where we slot you, do you accept this? Deal or no deal?’
I would POW - Deal. You know? Not that I wouldn’t want to go open another suitcase, but I would have taken this deal. That’s where we’re at today.
You guys agree?
Since we know Don Waddell is working hard to add some re-enforcements, this Sunday edition of the Beat Blog will close with some trade talks from around the league:
