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Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Major line shakeup in Blueland
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Injury news first. Defenseman Zach Bogosian is getting an MRI today after a left leg injury on his first shift in Tuesday night’s 7-0 blowout loss to the Flyers. Bogosian won’t be making the trip to New York and New Jersey for games against the Rangers and the Devils. The Thrashers haven’t called up anybody from Chicago to replace him. Nathan Oystrick steps in.
Now, the line news. The first line is back the way it was over the summer, with Ilya Kovalchuk, Erik Christensen and Jason Williams.
The other lines:
Slava Kozlov-Todd White-Bryan Little
Colby Armstrong-Marty Reasoner-Chris Thorburn
Eric Perrin-Jim Slater-Brett Sterling or Eric Boulton
The defensive pairings remain the same, with Oystrick joining Mathieu Schneider, Ron Hainsey working with Garnet Exelby and Tobias Enstrom with Niclas Havelid.
Enstrom was working with Hainsey and Kovalchuk during a power play drill in practice. Also, the Kozlov-White-Little line did what looked like a power play drill with Schneider and Oystrick.
My story will cover how the coach and the team reacted to Tuesday night’s drubbing.
