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Thrashers Winning Without Russian Star
by Paul on 03/22/10 at 07:38 AM ET
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from Damien Cox of the Spin at the Toronto Star,
The Thrashers swept the stumbling, goaltender-less Flyers over the weekend after beating both Buffalo and Ottawa last week and are hot on the trail of eighth place Boston. While ex-Leafs may be killing the Calgary Flames — could you believe Vesa Toskala got the start last night in Minny? — they’re powering the Thrashers’ playoff drive as Nik Antropov and Pavel Kubina play key roles.
GM Don Waddell took the public hit for not signing Kovalchuk, but the reality was this wasn’t a team that could pay one player $9- or $10 million a season and hope to flourish. Now, without Kovalchuk, they’re playing better hockey.
So much for star power.
Meanwhile, Kovalchuk’s future as an unrestricted free agent will be fascinating to watch. He didn’t exactly light it up last week when he came to town with the Devils. Despite all the talk that the KHL will come calling with an offer of $15 million a season, some attendance numbers out of the IIHF this morning provided some sobering news about just how big the Russia-based league actually is.
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