One week after escaping with a 5-4 win at Philips Arena, the Caps return to take on the Ilya Kovalchuk-less Thrashers tonight in Atlanta. Kovy, who has scored about half of his team's goals so far this season, will be out for a while and certainly won't help the Thrashers maintain their tenuous hold on second-place in the Southeast Divison.
The Thrash also will be wearing their hideous alternate jerseys, which they donned last Thursday as well. The Thrashers have only played one game since that loss to the Caps, a 4-3 defeat at the hands of the San Jose Sharks on Saturday night.
For the Caps, it's all adding to the current five-game winning streak and seven-point lead in the division. Tonight also could mark Tomas Fleischmann's return to the line-up after missing every game this season.
Alex Ovechkin, who leads the NHL with 11 goals, has scored goals in six games. In five of those games, he has scored two goals and the Caps are 4-0-1. The red, white and blue is 26-0-2 the last 28 times Ovechkin has had a multiple-goal game.
Tonight marks the opener of the Caps first back-to-back set of the season.
October 29, 2009
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