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Thursday, June 14, 2007
A clean slate
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
At the request of a couple Thrashers Beat Blog regulars, I’m posting a new blog for you all to comment on while I’m out of commission (read: at the beach) for the next week. There won’t be a Monday blog, so this one will have to count for that. Like I said before, you are all in charge of keeping everyone posted on the latest hockey news. (Like Mike Keenan’s return to Calgary. What do you guys think?)
I’ll leave you with a couple thoughts before I disappear.
- First, thanks for the comments on the Waddell Q and A. He deserves some credit too, since I took up a lot of his time during what is a busy portion of the off-season. What you saw posted on the web was still only about half of what I transcribed. Newspaper content is measured in inches. Well, the Q and A that ran in the paper was roughly 25-30 inches. The extended Q and A that ran on ajc.com was probably close to 100 inches. The raw text of my interview was about 160 inches. But once I cut out our argument over whether or not to reveal Hartley’s contract length (he won that argument - asking such questions as ‘How long is your contract at the newspaper?’ or ‘You’re married, how long is that contract?’) and a few other things, I got it to a somewhat reasonable length. I still think contract length of coaches/GM is pertinent information, but it doesn’t matter what I think, now does it? Hey - your Stanley Cup champions had no problem revealing the length of Randy Carlyle’s new deal.
- Other thoughts on the Q and A: The Rucchin comments are revealing in that it shows that the Thrashers won’t be approaching the new cap number any time soon… Remember when reading comments about UFAs like Kozlov, the two sides are currently in negotiations so anything said can also be interpreted as posturing… In case you’re wondering, the 10 players under contract mentioned in the lede includes Enstrom and Popovic, two guys I’m going to assume will make the team… The biggest revelation for me was the Hossa stuff. My interpretation of the CBA was incorrect, I didn’t realize Hossa could be extended this summer. Getting him taken care of could eliminate a lot of potential distraction during the season. Can you imagine Hossa being a potential free agent near the trade deadline and the Thrashers on the playoff bubble? Hossa would be attached to every trade rumor.
Alright, you are in charge.
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