Thrashers Offense Carries Team to Opening Night Win

A great start. It was a wild and woolly game, but the Thrashers got a big win in front of a full building. The superstar had three points, the young goalie was good enough and a role player (Peverley) saved their bacon after Tampa made it close. The Kovalchuk line played huge minutes and the 4th line was rarwly on the ice. During the game it seemed like Bogosian was out there frequently, but his Time On Ice (TOI) was just under 21 minutes. It was not a good Corsi night for the team, they were out-shot badly--but it was one of those games were the scoring chances seemed fairly even to me . Peverley was the only person with a positive Corsi Number and Kozlov, Kane and Salmela finished with an even Corsi number. Players Total Ice Time Shots For per 60 ES TOI Shots Against per 60 ES TOI Corsi per 60 TOI Ilya Kovalchuk 26.92 15.9 44.4 -28.5 Bryan Little 24.33 14.1 38.7 -24.6 Todd White 19.68 35.1 40.1 -5.0 Nik Antropov 16.77 15.0...