GodsendJen

I agree with most of the things Bob Hartley does with the Thrashers, after all he knows infinately more about hockey than I can ever hope to comprehend.  The decisions of his I've really questioned came during the games where Kari Lehtonen gave up a couple of quick goals and Hartley quickly pulled him and went to Johan Hedberg.  Coming from a football background there are some football thoughts that infiltrate my hockey thoughts.  I think of goalies the same way I think of quarterback and I really worried that getting pulled quickly and being sat for so many games would shake his confidence.  On a night like tonight where our defense was spread thin it would have been easy for Hartley to make another goalie switch.  Hopefully sticking with Lehtonen is a sign that his confidence is up and he's regained Hartley's trust.  The end result was an incredible 5-4 overtime win over the Rangers.  A nice bit of revenge exacted for that loss they handed to us a few weeks ago. Those losses by Carolina and Tampa Bay are just icing on the cake.