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Saturday, September 8, 2007
Live game blog: Thrashers vs. Rangers
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
TRAVERSE CITY — Alright, we’re about to get things started in the second game of the prospects tournament. Here are your lines:
Game: Thrashers vs. Rangers, 3:30 p.m. Saturday
Holzapfel - Little - Pospisil
Painchaud - Hamilton - Machacek
Golicic - Fox - Stoez
Dubuc - Duschesneau - Alphonso
Kylda - Enstrom
Lehman - Postma
Denny - Lewis
Three things to watch:
1. Can Bryan Little keep up his impressive offensive output after two goals in game one?
2. Tobias Enstrom continues his adjustment to the North American game.
3. Our first look at goalie Dan Turple. Oh yeah, we’ll also see how Alex Bourret looks against his former team.
I’ll get an update in the first intermission if my laptop battery makes it that far.
EDIT: 4:09 P.M. — Thrashers 1, Rangers 1 (first intermission) — Arron Alphonso scored his first goal of the tournament early in the first period to give the Thrashers an early 1-0 lead. The Rangers answered late with a goal, but Turple looks solid in net for the Thrashers. They were outshot 15-6 in the period mostly because the Rangers were on the power play a ton. Tobias Enstrom saved a goal with a nice play, clearing the puck out of the crease late in the period. The Thrashers will have to stay out of the penalty box if they want to stay in this game.
EDIT: 5:11 P.M. — Rangers 3, Thrashers 2 (start of third period) — Bourret scored on a wrister to give the Rangers the lead heading into the final period. Hamilton scored Thrashers only goal of the period. Shots on goal at the 16:33 mark of the third: Rangers - 25, Thrashers - 13. Alphonso left the game with an injury .
EDIT: 6:07 PM — Rangers 5, Thrashers 3 (final) — The lone highlight of a rough third period was Bryan Little’s third goal of the tournament, which came on a nice snapshot. Thrashers are now 1-1 in the tournament.
