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Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Thorburn vs. Sutton II?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Some good discussion yesterday on the blogger debate. If you missed it, The Falconer weighed in with a lengthy and thoughtful post on his website (which I just found out this morning is a Napoleon Dynamite reference. I know, I’m quick). We can continue the discussion on that blog post. I’ll respond to comments on there as long as people continue to visit it and comment.
The talk this morning at the skate was about Mark Recchi and whether or not he’d help the Thrashers. I asked Don Waddell about Recchi and he confirmed that the Thrashers wouldn’t put a claim on him And as we found out later today, nobody did. So he cleared waivers. What are your thoughts?
Mark Popovic is going to sit this one out. He didn’t skate this morning, his ankle is still bothering him. Officially, it’s a sprained ankle and he’s listed as day-to-day. Steve McCarthy will be paired with Alexei Zhitnik. I know there’s no cheering in the press box, but I’d be happy for Steve if he caught a break and was a +4 or something on the day. Unlike some of the other players who struggled to open the season, he’s the only one who hasn’t had a chance to consistently play while the team is playing better. Well, him and Kari Lehtonen. But Kari is back and will ultimately be able to work his stats back to normal. Poor Mac, it seems like he’s been a -13 for months.
I asked Chris Thorburn if he wanted a rematch with Andy Sutton tonight and he started laughing. And no, he doesn’t. He did say he’ll play hard and get in people’s faces and if something happens over the course of the game…
He said he got a bunch of calls after the Islanders game because evidently it looked like he had a big cut on TV, but I saw him immediately after the game and you couldn’t tell he was even in a fight. He showed me where most of Andy’s punches landed, and it was on the side of his head, not in the face. Here’s how that conversation went:
CC: So are you going to be looking for Andy tonight?
CT: We’ll just play the game the way it’s supposed to be played, and if it comes to something like that, than so be it. I’m just going to go play my game, in your face and see what happens. But probably not.
CC: Probably not?
CT: My head is still swollen from the last time.
CC: You looked alright, it doesn’t look like you got beat up.
CT: On TV, it looks like I got split open. People called me and were like, ‘How many stitches did you get?’ I checked it out yesterday and it looks like I got split open above my left eye.
CC: I’ll have to set the record straight.
CT: (laughs) Yeah, no stitches, nothing.
So there you go, no stitches. If you missed it, here’s the fight on Hockeyfights.com. Thorburn joked that he just hoped Sutton would get tired throwing all those punches so that he could get a lick in. “He’s a big boy,” Thorburn said. Yeah, he is. We’ll see how it goes tonight.
