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Monday, December 29, 2008
2008 in review
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
I know it’s only Dec. 29, but with back-to-back games on Dec. 30 and 31 I don’t know how much blogging I’ll get done. So, after this brief bit of news —
no lineup changes expected for Tuesday night, other than Moose in net in place of Kari, who is likely to play Wednesday at Carolina. Bryan Little’s six goals in three games resulted in him being named the NHL’s second star of the week, raising the question of how many goals in three games a Thrashers player would have to score to be named the first star of the weekÂ
— we go to the subject of this blog:
The year in review.
Most pleasant Thrashers surprise:
A) Bryan Little
B) Nathan Oystrick
C) Todd White’s resurgence
D) Slava Kozlov’s resurgence
Area you thought would be better than it has been:
A) Forwards
B) Defensemen
C) Goalies
D) All of the above
E) None of the above. I expected what I’ve seen, or worse.
The Thrashers are
A) Where I thought they’d be in the standings
B) Lower than I thought they’d be in the standings
C) Higher than I thought they’d be in the standings. Thank God for the Islanders
The story of the year so far is
A) More of the same
B) What happened to Ilya Kovalchuk?
C) Zach Bogosian’s injury. I really wanted to see what he could do.
D) Ownership and management, not the players on the ice
The injury that hurt the Thrashers the most is
A) Kari Lehtonen’s bad back
B) Zach Bogosian’s broken fibula
C) Mathieu Schneider’s shoulder and hip flexor
D) Garnet Exelby’s hairline fracture of the lower leg
E) Erik Christensen’s shoulder
F) John Anderson’s knees. The Thrashers could really use his 1980s-era 30 goals a season.
G) Atlanta hockey fans’ egos during the 1-7-1 stretch
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