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After his team played poorly the night before, Thrashers coach John Anderson challenged his players to focus on fundamental hockey.

Fresh off an embarrassing 6-3 loss on Long Island the night before, the Thrashers once again dug themselves a two-goal hole playing at home.

Atlanta suffered the same defensive lapses that it did in their 4-3 loss to the Columbus Blue Jackets on Thursday night at Philips Arena, allowing way too many shots by the once-offensively challenged Islanders.

Game time: 7:30 PM EST TV: RDS Canadiens: 7-7-0; 14 points; 3rd in the Northeast Thrashers: 5-4-1; 11 points; 3rd in the Southeast Two weeks ago, the Canadiens were mired in a five-game losing streak.

October has come and gone...as has 10 games of the 2009-10 Thrashers campaign. So here are my "good, un-good and ugly" of the season so far.

The Montreal Canadiens will aim for their sixth win in eight games when they welcome the Atlanta Thrashers for this evening's clash at Bell Centre.

Thrashers' keys to success while their top sniper is out for a month. 1. Above and beyond everything is strong goaltending.

Ondrej Pavelec made 50 saves, and Rich Peverley had a goal and assist for the Atlanta Thrashers, who broke a four-game losing streak with a 3-1 victory over the Ottawa Senators on Saturday.

Last Thursday the Thrashers outshot the Washington Capitals 41-32 and lost. Last Saturday they outshot San Jose 27-24a and they lost.

If the Atlanta Thrashers hope not to waste one of the best starts in franchise history, they will have to play more like they did in the last half of Thursday's 4-3 loss to the Washington Capitals than they did in the first.

Fantasy Forecast for Tuesday, October 27 Tuesday marks the debut of the weekly fantasy segment on the Verizon All-Access Pregame Show, which can only be found on the NHL Network.

As hard as it is to imagine a team being in a make-or-break period this early in the season, that's the situation the Atlanta Thrashers find themselves in these days.

The Atlanta Thrashers have recalled forward Jason Krog from their AHL affiliate in Chicago.

FIRE Maxim Afinogenov , Thrashers After watching Maxim Afinogenov on Saturday night, I'm convinced my decision to roster the Russian winger late in every draft this season was the correct one.

Atlanta still has shot to woo Kovalchuk Atlanta Thrashers' Ilya Kovalchuk lines up his shot as Ottawa Senators' Chris Phillips plays defense during the second period of their NHL hockey game in Ottawa October 10, 2009.

The San Jose Sharks will make the latest stop on a lengthy east coast road trip tonight in Atlanta, where the 2008-09 regular-season Western Conference champions take on a Thrashers team that's beginning to come down after a hot start.

Tonight the Washington Capitals were on the road in Phillips Arena to face off against their divisional rivals, the Atlanta Thrashers.

Jeff Schultz, Matt Bradley and Chris Clark scored in an 88-second span of the second period, Semyon Varlamov stopped 22 shots and the Washington Capitals beat the Atlanta Thrashers 5-4 on Thursday night for their third straight win.

The Atlanta Thrashers signed forward Rich Peverley to a multiple-year year contract extension Tuesday.

Ilya Kovalchuk says that this season's edition of the Atlanta Thrashers is the best team in the NHL franchise's 10-year history.