Thrashers Down The Blues, Sens Up Next

The Thrashers went into St. Louis and got a 4-2 win in the Blues home opener.

Kovalchuk scored a BEAUTIFUL goal on the power play  to put the Thrash up 2-1 and later added the empty netter for his 4th goal in 2 games in the young season.  He also hit the career mark of 300 goals.  Kovalchuk has scored more goals then any NHL player since the 01-02 season.

Evander Kane also put a wrister past Chris Mason for his first NHL goal that would turn out to be the game winner.  The line of Kane- Peverley- Armstrong looked very good for their first game together.

Overall, it was a pretty solid game for the Thrashers.  The penalty kill looked fantastic with young Evander out there for a large portion of the PK time.  If he plays like that on the PK consistently he is almost assured of staying in the NHL this year.

The size and presence of Christoph Schubert was noticeable right away and he looks to be a great addition to the defensive corps.

The 2nd line of Kozlov-White-Afinogenov looks completely out of sync right now, hopefully that is just them getting used to each other, but it is by far our worst line at the moment.  If they get it together we will be even more of a force to be reckoned with in the offensive zone.

This is only the second 2-0-0 start for the Thrashers in franchise history and they will look to extend it to 3-0-0 in Ottawa on Saturday night.  The Sens currently sit at 2-1.

Lines should be unchanged for tomorrow night.  Pavelec has played well in both games so far and I think the coaches will put him in once again tomorrow.

a 3-0 start would be huge for team confidence and wouldn’t hurt in Kovy negotiations either.    The game won’t be televised for either team(killin me Ottawa!) so I will be plastered to my nearest radio listening to what I hope is another great win!

Chris Telford

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