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Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Johnny “Rotten” Anderson speaks
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Thrashers coach John Anderson, back home in Toronto, entertained a pack of reporters (I counted five video cameras) with stories of the days he and Toronto Maple Leafs coach Ron Wilson were teammates with the Dallas Black Hawks and the Leafs. They got hazed together as Leafs rookies.
“Instead of shaving our heads, they kind of cut pieces out of it, so we looked like the Sex Pistols,” Anderson said. “They called me Johnny Rotten. They called him Sid Vicious. I said hello to Sid today.”
Then there was the night as Dallas teammates they wanted to watch the World Series on TV during a road trip, but the TV didn’t work in their room, so they changed rooms. The next day, coach Gerry McNamara chewed them out for missing curfew.
“I checked your room and knocked on it a thousand times,” McNamara said. “You guys weren’t in. Where were you?”
On to the more serious stuff.
Slava Kozlov is OK today after leaving the ice early in Monday’s practice, which is good news for him and the Thrashers but maybe not for Joey Crabb, whose NHL debut won’t come tonight here in Toronto.
Johan Hedberg is in net.
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