Comments on: Thrashers offseason updates

By: Tickle Me Selma

Tickle Me Selma — Wed, 27 May 2009 01:57:34 +0000

One story, huh? Pinch me. Well, it’s not like there’s anything going on in the hockey world these days. Typical AJC.

I stopped my paper subscription to the AJC the day I hooked up to the internets in the early nineties and found real hockey coverage. The only reason I poke my head around here is for the comments, which are often way more informative and intelligent than the coverage this paper has historically given the game.

By: Alan

Alan — Tue, 26 May 2009 22:09:36 +0000

Any coverage of the draft combine?

Please throw us a bone here, Chris.

By: Brendan

Brendan — Tue, 26 May 2009 16:18:19 +0000

No, Vivlamore has a story cookin’. It just hasn’t come out yet.

By: Tickle Me Selma

Tickle Me Selma — Tue, 26 May 2009 00:54:06 +0000

No updates from the beat writer in a while? That bodes poorly. I guess there are better things to do.

By: hockeyman3944

hockeyman3944 — Mon, 25 May 2009 10:40:04 +0000

There’s a reason Don Fraudell was named the worst GM in hockey, mates…he’s a puppet for a bumbling, clueless “group” of owners, (a group of owners mind you…whatever happened to a tough singular owner?), that couldn’t run a car wash let alone a sports franchise! They are underdunded and saw this as an opportunity to get into the big leagues and have some fun, kinda like owning a race horse. But, a race horse has to be fed, watered and taken care of once you buy it. OOOPS! Forgot about the fed and watering part huh? And Teflon Don is their stooge, himself nearly as brain dead as those dithering idiots. These two are collectively running hockey out of ATL, and its a shame because there are a nice group of dedicated fans here that will be spending fewer and fewer $$ to see admittedly overpriced entertainment, with a non-competitive team in an ailing economy. Nice work guys, you’ve really got your fingers on the pulse of the Thrashers! ATL fans are perhaps the worst in sports generally…front runners and band wagon jumpers, but these guys absolutely don’t help a great sport that unfortunately is relegated to a cult sport…a darned shame!!

By: Gov Sonny

Gov Sonny — Thu, 21 May 2009 20:22:36 +0000

Go Thrashers!

By: ranallo10 (in AT)

ranallo10 (in AT) — Thu, 21 May 2009 01:30:40 +0000

Not to nit picks, but I would say that Duncan Keith is the better defender simply because he’s a more rounded defender and still possesses offensive abilities as a defenseman. To give a closer to home comparison, it’s like Enstrom vs. Bogosian…one is the more rounded defender (Bogosian), while the other is a defensively capable offensive defenseman. Both are good in their own right.

If I had to choose between Campbell or Keith, I’d choose Keith based on how I’ve seen them both play, and what they both bring to the table as defenders. Chicago having both, combined with Seabrook and Barker, is a solid top 4 with plenty of years for further development.

By: World Be Free

World Be Free — Thu, 21 May 2009 01:17:23 +0000

Yo Bob-truth be told, I am a Sabres fan too. I died when the gave up Campbell basically for nothing, along with Briere and Drury. All 3 are all overpaid, but they are also playmakers.

I just don’t see giving a one dimensional defenseman that kind of money. A $56M D-man should play 28-30 minutes / game every game.

FYI-Thrashers come first over Sabres

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 21 May 2009 00:40:36 +0000

“Now Bob, why do you think Brian Campbell is so good?”

Because it takes real talent to turn the puck over like that and give the game away.

He screwed up big time (understatement of the year) but he’s not the 3rd best dman on the club, he’s the best dman they’ve got, he’s just not a defensive shutdown type which is why he’s not there in those situations you’re looking at.

But that was pretty damn ironic that he blows the game right after I give you crap about him, lol indeed.

By: World Be Free

World Be Free — Thu, 21 May 2009 00:00:51 +0000

Brian Campbell got tired. He decided to take a nap in the middle of overtime, must have become dizzy from one too many spin-o-rammas. Instead of Chicago possibly being tied in the series 1-1, it’s 2-ZIPP Detroit .

As Bob would say, LOL

From The Buffalo News today-

Brian Campbell might not want to turn on the television, open a paper or peruse the Internet today. He’s all over all of them, and it isn’t pretty.

The Blackhawks defenseman had a game-losing giveaway Tuesday night as Chicago lost to Detroit, 3-2, in overtime. The setback dropped Chicago into a 2-0 hole in the Western Conference finals, and many are saying the series is over.

Campbell is definitely wearing the goat outfit. He turned the puck over at the Detroit blue line with a backhand attempt, and the Red Wings responded with a three-on-one rush that goalie Nikolai Khabibulin had no chance of stopping.

ESPN is running clips of Campbell ’s “Big Mistakes.” The lowlights start with his penalty late in Game Seven of the 2006 Eastern Conference finals, when he shot the puck over the glass for the Sabres; Carolina scored the game-winner on the power play. The next clip is a penalty he took in the fourth overtime last season with San Jose , and Dallas eliminated the Sharks on the power play. Those plays are followed by Tuesday’s gaffe.

“On the goal there I’ll do that play a hundred more times,” Campbell said in the Chicago Tribune