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DEL.ICIO.USNew guy, new number
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Rich Peverley has new teammates to meet and a new number to pick. He wore No. 37 with the Predators; the Thrashers no longer use that number because it belonged to Dan Snyder.
Peverley played at St. Lawrence. Todd White played at Clarkson (but not in the same years). Having them in the same locker room is a bit like having an Alabama and an Auburn football player together. The Clarkson-St. Lawrence rivalry is pretty fierce, and hockey is THE sport up there in northern New York. The campuses are only about 10 miles apart.
Ron Hainsey, Boris Valabik and Mathieu Schneider didn’t practice today. Coach John Anderson said they had minor injuries. The Thrashers just finished a stretch of 14 games in 26 days, so you’d expect some bumps that needed a day off to get better. Garnet Exelby, returning from a hairline fracture, skated after practice.
The original plan was for Sunday to be the off day, but because Saturday’s game was a 1 p.m. start and Sunday night is Casino Night, they changed to a Sunday practice so players could have all of Monday off instead. Things return to normal on Tuesday.
Comments
By Long Time Fan
January 11, 2009 5:49 PM | Link to this
Tap of the stick to the Thrashers for doing something right. I still feel the number should be on a banner somewhere in the arena.
By Jim
January 11, 2009 6:37 PM | Link to this
We need size, grit and some muscle and what do we get- another mediocre smurf. With Hoffman out with a serious cut, we have little muscle in the system. So what does the Warped Brain (read Donnie Boy) come up with? Another deck chair for our Titanic. What a sorry team and a sorry GM.
By Thrashers27
January 11, 2009 6:44 PM | Link to this
My question is: if Peverley is coming in, who is going out?
Why did we pick up another 3rd line center anyway? We already have Perrin, Slater, Christensen and Reasoner…and Williams if you count him as center.
Could this pickup be in preparation for a trade?
By dhj_1962
January 11, 2009 6:47 PM | Link to this
pick up s avery, better center than Rich Peverley. look for a 3rd line center from one of the top 10 clubs that is a ufa. 3rd liner from Boston, Detriot..etc.etc is better than our 2nd line center. Atl. will not finish last, if we are lucky we will get the 2nd pick, take Hedmon from sweden, he would love to play with Enstrom, trade Kari at the deadline and sign a ufa goalie. get rid of xlb, perrin and MS too. go Thrashers!!
By Brendan
January 11, 2009 6:59 PM | Link to this
Did Exelby express a time table for his return?
By sisu
January 11, 2009 7:05 PM | Link to this
WE HAVE A CAPTAIN!!!! CONGRATZ KOVY
http://thrashers.portspaces.com/blueland
By Thrashy Thrashy
January 11, 2009 7:24 PM | Link to this
I’ll second that, sisu.
Congrats to Kovy. It’s nice to have a captain.
By hairyheckler
January 11, 2009 8:53 PM | Link to this
Following in the grand tradition of Thrasher Captains, what are the odds on Kovy beating Mellanby’s streak of two years? I’d have to say it is far from easy money.
By Kopfjaeger
January 12, 2009 11:46 AM | Link to this
Jim, Unless you’ve played in the NHL,( your X-BOX doesn’t count) it takes a lot of bal-Z to call any player a “mediocre smurf.” I will agree with you though that what we need is defense. This front office obviously doesn’t get it because defense has always been the weakness for the Thrashers. If they can’t figure out what that is they might want to Google “top 10 defensemen in NHL history” and use the bio’s as a guide
They also need somebody who’s going to go into the corners like a wild Indian and dig the puck out for Kovalchuk.
By kracker
January 12, 2009 12:19 PM | Link to this
Good! About time they named Kovy Captain…the story says the As went to JA with that recommendation.
I hope the Spirit Group’s legal battles are either concluded or sufficiently finalized by summer so they can offer Kovy a long term maximum deal. The Thrash will never have another player as talented that actually wants to play for the team.
By Bemused Fan
January 12, 2009 1:00 PM | Link to this
Donnie W won’t get it done by combing the waiver wire for a center to work with Kovy. Nope, not gonna happen. I wonder how much better Thrasher life would have been if Donnie (actually the ownership collective) parted with some money for Marc Savard and we kept him. The Trashers would still be thin on talent but might have a shot at a playoff spot. I expect the team to continue playing as it has and John Tavares may be a realistic possibility. Last, why not call up Angelo Esposito after a good showing at the international juniors tournament and let him get some playing time in non-consequential NHL games to speed his development? Heck, bring up all the prospects and see who shakes out, this season is beyond over.
By Bemused Fan, a redux
January 12, 2009 1:03 PM | Link to this
Oh, by the way, naming Kovy team Captain is the kiss of death! Gone for sure.
By Billsen
January 12, 2009 1:22 PM | Link to this
Bemused Fan wrote:
*Donnie W won’t get it done by combing the waiver wire for a center to work with Kovy. Nope, not gonna happen. *
Do you have any idea how we got Marc Savard? Any idea at all?
We claimed him by combing the waiver wire.
I’m not suggesting that Peverley is Savard #2, but to say you can’t get a quality player that way isn’t true.
Billsen
By MashaPlayer7
January 12, 2009 4:00 PM | Link to this
We got Savard in a trade…for a Thrasher’s draft guy - Ruslin Zainullin.
By Caidis McGherkin
January 13, 2009 11:06 AM | Link to this
The comment about Peverly and White…Bogosians brother plays for SLU too. And they are from Massena thats 30 mins from both schools. Interesting talk in the locker room after the SLU Saints swept CU over the weekend!
By thrasherville
January 14, 2009 5:07 PM | Link to this
**Do you have any idea how we got Marc Savard? Any idea at all?
We claimed him by combing the waiver wire.
I’m not suggesting that Peverley is Savard #2, but to say you can’t get a quality player that way isn’t true.
Billsen **
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