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Thursday, February 22, 2007
Biggest game ever?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Some quick team-related news — The Thrashers called up Derek MacKenzie from Chicago and placed Steve Rucchin on the injured reserve. Rucchin is still having headaches related to that hit in Colorado — he’s got a history of concussions so the team isn’t messing around at all with this one.
MacKenzie was called up just in case Eric Belanger can’t go tonight. Belanger didn’t practice yesterday because of the flu (that seems to be going around in the dressing room. Boulton had it a few days ago). Belanger skated this morning and Bob Hartley said he’d be a game-time decision based on how he was feeling. When I saw him in the dressing room, he said he was feeling better, so we’ll see.
Now, with that stuff aside, we can talk about the game tonight. We were debating it in the office this afternoon, but is this the biggest game in team history? You don’t want to overreact to every game from here on out, but couldn’t this game tonight be one that we point back to and say, this was a turning point? Where does this game tonight rank in stature for you in the short history of the team?
