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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Exelby waiting out ankle injury
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
So I went into the Thrashers dressing room after the morning skate to do a little work and ended up spending the entire time talking about Atlas Shrugged with Bobby Holik. I’m convinced that Bobby needs his own radio show. How about a Podcast? That’s what we need, a weekly Thrashers podcast to go with this blog. You think we could get more than 2,500 people to download it?
The book discussion all started because we were talking about that old CNN clip where the newswoman forgot to turn off her microphone and went into the bathroom and bashed her sister-in-law, or maybe it was mother-in-law. I forget. That’s when Bobby starts criticizing his teammates choice of television viewing habits, and talked about the virtues of spending time in a book store. And Holik even claims to have finished reading every single book he’s ever started. Where does Atlas Shrugged fit in? Well, Ben Wright, the Thrashers web guy, said Atlas Shrugged is the only book he hasn’t finished. Turns out, it’s also my favorite book. And thus, the debate.
So what does that mean to you, the reader? It means less insight than usual. Sorry. Not that you come here for insight though, right? I did manage to stop the book discussion long enough to talk to Don Waddell and Garnet Exelby about the defenseman’s ankle. He won’t play tonight and wants the ankle to get in better shape before he returns to the ice. He didn’t practice yesterday or today. In his words, he was tired of being a liability on the ice while he tried to play through the injury. So he’s out tonight, Steve McCarthy is in and Exelby is day to day. He’s hoping this ankle injury, which he classified as a deep bone bruise, won’t keep him out longer than a week. The only lineup change is in goal, where Johan Hedberg replaces Ondrej Pavelec.
While the team was skating this morning, Kari Lehtonen was running stairs up and down the empty Philips Arena stands. He looks like he’s in great shape, and didn’t show any signs of the groin injury. By all accounts, his recovery is going well and like I mentioned yesterday, he could return to practice next week.
Did any of you catch the Florida game on Versus last night? The Panthers lost for the fourth time in the last five games. Tomas Vokoun wasn’t exactly sharp and you have to wonder if he’s going to play tonight. Backup goalie Craig Anderson hasn’t started a game since Oct. 18 (Toronto) but I remember him playing well against the Thrashers last season. George Richards points out in today’s Miami Herald that the Panthers were 2-9 last season in the second of back-to-back games. But, as we know, the Thrashers are in no position to take any games for granted.
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