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Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Good day for Thorburn, White
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
I wrote the injury news (shoulder problem for Erik Christensen, return to the ice for Zach Bogosian) in my story on our Thrashers page. I also wrote about Joe Motzko there.
So here I’ll tell you about a couple of good news items from Tuesday’s intrasquad game. One was Chris Thorburn attacking the net. He scored on a beautiful two-on-one with Marty Reasoner, Thorburn-to-Reasoner-to-Thorburn for an easy shot into an open side of the net. He drew a penalty from Ken Klee on another drive to the net. And he scored the decisive goal in the shootout.
White made the shot of the day, blasting the puck home from a very tight angle. Anderson was watching from directly above, from the Breakaway Grill, and he was happy with what he saw.
“I was bugging Todd White since the start of training camp to drive the puck when he shoots it. He was 10 feet inside and he really drove it. It was like, bing, right away and hard. He didn’t give the goalie a chance to move across,” Anderson said.
Anderson liked what he saw on Day 4 in general. “I thought our passing was way better, our grasp of what we wanted to do was a lot better,” he said.
OK, so back to the Christensen injury. If he’s out for awhile, what would you do with the No. 1 center spot in the meantime? Jason Williams? White? Bryan Little?
