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Friday, March 23, 2007
Simmer down for awhile
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A little bad news from Thrashers camp - Jon Sim is undergoing surgery today at 2 p.m. to fix a fractured orbital bone suffered last night during his fight with Mark Bell. It’s a tough blow for a team that had relatively healthy, and for a guy who provided a lot of grit to the Kovalchuk/Tkachuk line.
He’s a great lockerroom guy too. Just to give you an idea — when I asked Tkachuk today what it meant losing Sim off his line, he spoke about all his positives — his grit, his hustle, his hard work. Then he laughed and said “don’t tell that SOB I said any of that.”
Hartley wouldn’t say he that Sim was lost for the season, but we’ll know more once the surgery is done.
I haven’t seen replays of the fight yet, but it was bizarre because Sim skated right off, there didn’t appear to be a lot of blood - unlike de Vries’ crash into the boards the other night. But I knew something was up when he went right down the tunnel to the trainers room.
Pascal Dupuis will replace Sim on that line, Boulton will be back in the lineup and could skate in Dupuis’ old spot with Holik. Or we might see Vigier there. Or Slater. We won’t really know for sure until the puck drops, especially considering there won’t be a morning skate in Pittsburgh because it’s an afternoon game.
I don’t have a lot of time to blog today, need to wrap up Saturday’s story previewing the Pittsburgh game and head to the airport. But just wanted to give you a quick Sim update.
Oh yeah — in case any of you thought we might see Hedberg in goal for the Pittsburgh game, we won’t. Kari Lehtonen will be back in there against the Pens. The two Macs will be the other scratches.
