Atlanta used the lowest number of skaters from all NHL teams this season (21 skaters), this is keeping team more together.
This time are are couple injuries Nikolai Antropov and long term Kari Lehtonen and defenseman Mark Popovic.
There are again expected more goals and huge motivation of Atlanta to win. All this because of 4 straight wins by Washington over Atlanta. In these last four results we could see great number of goals and Washington outscored Atlanta 19:13. Ilya Kovalchuk and Alexander Ovechkin will try to show who is better one on the ice.
Ovechkin has much better support by Bäckström, Semin and Fleischmann.
Atlanta - Washington estimation -- 3:4, 4:4, 3:5 (over 6,0 goals).
Sun 10.1.2010 00:17 (Last modified Sun 10.1.2010 00:18)