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Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Gotta beat the Flyers
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Enjoyed Tuesday’s rare day off, as I’m sure many of the Thrashers did. Sure my wife had a honey-do list that kept me busy, but I didn’t mind mowing the lawn (actually the weeds in my lawn) for once. But today, it was back to work. The Thrashers had a productive 50-minute practice, one in which everybody skated. It was a pretty loose dressing room afterwards, including a nice argument between Kari Lehtonen and Pascal Dupuis over the toughness of hockey players from Quebec.
Now it’s off to Philly, I leave in a few minutes here for the airport. As Alexei Zhitnik pointed out this morning , these games against the Flyers are big ones. He was on the other end, when the Flyers were beating the Thrashers back in February. He pointed out that if the Thrashers would have beaten his Flyers, they’d be in the hunt for the top spot in the conference right now. But there’s nothing they can do about those losses now.
Kari Lehtonen will start in goal against the Flyers, and Johan Hedberg will start against the Rangers. Kari talked a little today about how nice it is to get the second day of back-to-back games off. He was saying that sometimes in the third period of the first game, he starts thinking about the second game - losing a little focus. it’s human nature, heck as I’m writing this, and thinking about what I have to do next. An NHL goalie, evidently, is no different.
The Thrashers called up (or will, not sure if it’s official yet) Derek MacKenzie from Chicago, basically to get another skater out there for practices. I’m guessing, with players slightly banged up, exercising their option not to practice, it doesn’t hurt to have another guy out there. Since we’re post-trading deadline, there’s no roster limits.
Alright, gotta run — I’ll get to some of your comments when I get to Philadelphia.
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