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Friday, November 21, 2008
Bogosian makes progress
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
I forgot to share one of the pieces of good news for the Thrashers I learned from Thursday night’s loss to the Penguins. I saw Zach Bogosian afterward, and he’s no longer wearing a brace on his broken leg. A second X-ray showed that healing is taking place, and Bogosian told me his rehab has picked up in the past week. It sounds like he’s on schedule for a December return.
A few other thoughts:
Eric Perrin’s versatility sure has come in handy. The Thrashers have played him on the left wing, at the start of the season, on the right wing with Eric Boulton and Jim Slater during the winning streak and at center Thursday night after Todd White got hurt and he’s likely to be back on the right wing Saturday night with Ilya Kovalchuk and Jason Williams when the Thrashers probably call on Erik Christensen to center for Slava Kozlov and Bryan Little in White’s place. “I’m pretty comfortable anywhere,” Perrin told me on Friday.
Thrashers coach John Anderson, on the hit that knocked White out of the game: “I don’t think it was a cheap hit, maybe a little late.”
More Anderson, on the Penguins’ physical play and the Thrashers’ response: “I wish we had initiated some more of that in our building. Knock ‘em down.”
On a personal note, I won’t be at Saturday night’s game. I’m headed to Philadelphia to run the marathon, my 14th. It’s the first regular-season game I’m missing, and Carroll Rogers will do a terrific job reporting on it for us. (She also wrote our story on the victory over the New York Islanders and on one of the exhibition games.) I’ll be back for Monday’s practice, walking gingerly.
