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Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Lehtonen sharp in rehab start
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Kari Lehtonen’s performance last night is a good sign for the Thrashers. He had a shutout until the final 10 seconds of the game in his first start of rehab in the AHL. Don Waddell, who was at the game, said he liked Lehtonen’s lateral movement and that he looked good in there for the Wolves. I think he finished with 27 or 28 saves and evidently there was nothing he could do on the goal, which came on the power play.
Did any of you watch the game online, I’m curious how you thought Kari looked. Johan Hedberg, not surprisingly, will get the start in goal for the Toronto game. But with back-to-back games coming up with the Islanders and Devils, we’ll probably see rookie Ondrej Pavelec one more time before he’s sent back down to Chicago.
Based on practice, it looks like Waddell might be mixing things up a little for the Maple Leafs. He said he still hadn’t decided for sure what changes we’d see for Thursday, but he wants to get Darren Haydar an opportunity to play. So, if Haydar goes, I’d look for him to possibly play on a line with Little and Perrin, with Kozlov moving to Holik’s line. But again, that’s just speculation. We’ll know for sure at the morning skate.
The Toronto media is starting to make it’s way into town, and evidently it’s just a circus up there with the jobs of both the GM and coach on the line. You think the Thrashers could have the kiss of death for another coach, a week after being the team that ended Glen Hanlon’s time in Washington? We’ll see.
I checked on Tobias Enstrom’s all-star voting number for you guys and and he’s at 3,856 write-in votes as of Nov. 26th. Now that won’t win him a starting spot in the All-Star game, but it’s a pretty respectable total for a guy who isn’t on the ballot and doesn’t have a lot of name recognition outside of Atlanta. It’s too bad they won’t be doing the YoungStars game (from what I hear) this year because I imagine he and Bryan Little would be locks to make that team, especially with the game at Philips.
Let’s say the Thrashers tweak the lineup for Toronto and play Haydar, where would you put him? You think there should be any other changes in the lineup? Should Steve McCarthy get some playing time? Who do you sit?
