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Sunday, November 2, 2008
Kovy comes through
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Ilya Kovalchuk looked fantastic in Sunday’s 5-3 victory over Florida. My game story mentions his two goals and his assist and talks about how strong that second goal was, but I couldn’t describe everything he did. I couldn’t write about the way his pass almost set up Jason Williams for a goal, or the way he got his assist by aggressively taking the puck from Keith Ballard at the Thrashers blue line and got it ahead to Bryan Little.
Interesting change to the training camp top line of Kovalchuk, Erik Christensen and Williams by flipping Williams to center and Christensen to the right wing. Looked like a good idea.
Christensen played an excellent game, aside from missing a half-empty net by shooting high. Eventually, he’s going to score, and maybe the tension will go away and he’ll score a lot. For now, though, if he can pass the way he did Sunday he’ll be a very useful player.
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