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Thursday, November 8, 2007
Kovalchuk probable for Florida
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Ilya Kovalchuk was back on the ice this morning, although it was just a quick skate at the end of practice. But he’s confident he’ll be ready to go against Florida on Friday, so there’s some good news for you. You want some detail about how much pain Kovalchuk was in yesterday?
“I didn’t feel good at all. It was a little bit scary actually. I couldn’t even go in the bathroom,” he said after practice. Hey, we get in-depth here on the beat blog.
He expects to play, and said the doctors and trainers who were able to turn things around so quickly deserve a lot of credit. This could have been a lot worse, so assuming he doesn’t wake up in Florida tomorrow in extreme pain, he’ll be out there against the Panthers.
And as expected, Ondrej Pavelec will get another start. I like the Ondrej the Giant suggestion much better than The Wall as his nickname. I’m sticking with that one. Teammates are just calling him Pavs. I assumed that with back-to-back games, Pavelec would get one start and Johan Hedberg the other, but Don Waddell is keeping his options open for the second game. It sounds like Pavelec can earn a string of starts if he continues to play well.
The Thrashers are now 2-0 during their stretch of eight consecutive division games. Anybody want to venture a prediction as to what their record will be for those eight games. Is 6-2 too optimistic?
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