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Friday, October 24, 2008
Hockeytown welcomes you
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
First things first, and that’s who’s playing tonight. Beats me. John Anderson switched from his usual policy and in an interview after today’s morning skate said he wouldn’t reveal tonight’s lineup. This game is the first of back-to-backs, but he didn’t make any changes last time in that situation. He did say everybody is healthy and able to play if needed, and I didn’t notice anyone missing.
Spoke with Brad McCrimmon and Marian Hossa, both of whom pretty much said they’ve moved on from their time with the Thrashers with no lingering hard feelings. McCrimmon does have lingering home ownership in the Atlanta area; anybody in the market for a house?
Spoke at length with Don Waddell, who is pleased with the team’s showing through six games and gave a very optimistic description of where the Thrashers are and where they’re headed. He said during the season he lets Anderson call the shots on how to use the players, though they discussed it before the season. So the decision about when to give Johan Hedberg a chance in net is coming from the coaches (aside from that contact lens situation Lehtonen had in the first period at Florida).
Ate lunch at the Hockeytown Cafe, and sat not far from team photos of Detroit’s Stanley Cup champions, two featuring a very young-looking Slava Kozlov. He wasn’t the only current Thrashers star on display. Over the door at the entrance to the restaurant is a photo of Mathieu Schneider, Brett Hull and Jason Woolley holding the stick with which Hull scored career goal No. 732, passing Marcel Dionne for third on the all-time list. Schneider and Woolley assisted on the goal, which came Dec. 8, 2003 at Anaheim.
