Postgame, Roughly during Casino Night

Well, the Thrashers played hard, got some great goaltending and a couple of lucky bounces, ended regulation tied at 1, and won in the shootout over the New York Rang...

Wait a minute, we didn't play the Rags last night. Lemme do a quick check of the boxscore here... Oh buggah. We lost by HOW MUCH??? Did we have the same 2 dmen and 3 forwards playing the whole game?? Did we even HAVE a goalie?? Wow. Now I'm really glad I didn't put down the Better Homes and Garden magazine and tune into the game last night...

Just for the sake of fun, I'm going to go simulate a 10-game series between the Warshington Capitals and the Atlanta Thrashers on my NHL2k8 for XBOX 360 and see what the outcome is. Oh, and I'm going to make the Thrashers have only Kovalchuk and Slater as the players that are currently on the team. The remaining cast will be played by old has-been's and never-was's and middle-aged (for professional athletes) never-will-be's. Kovy, because he's the captain and seems to be gunning for a monster contract, so we'll see if he can do enough to earn it in the video game realm. Slater, because he seems to be just about the only one on the entire team who actually gives a flying fuddy duddy. I will post the outcome at a later time.

I'm sure it'll feel like watching the REAL Atlanta Thrashed in real life. Beer at the ready! Forward, DRINK!