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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.

October has come and gonea as has 10 games of the 2009-10 Thrashers campaign. So here are my a oegood, un-good and uglya of the season so far.

Raffi Torres scored twice as the Columbus Blue Jackets knocked off the Atlanta Thrashers, 4-3, at Philips Arena.

Columbus star Rick Nash entered Thursday's game fourth in the NHL with 21 points, including 10 points in his past six games.

Each year a round about this time we show up here and find a handful of skaters who are still residing Schnide Islanda that tiny spec of land that sits smack-dab in the middle of the vast expanse of the Ocean of Zilch.

Mark Popovic scored his first NHL goal and Colby Armstrong got the game-winner in a seesaw third period to lift the Atlanta Thrashers to a 5-4 victory over the Montreal Canadiens on Tuesday night.

Ya knowa ita s too bad that this season is an Olympic year, causing the NHL to skip having an All-Star Game as to allow players to participate in the festivities in Vancouver.

Colby Armstrong's goal late in the third period and 34 saves from Ondrej Pavelec staked Atlanta to a 5-4 victory over Montreal at Bell Centre.

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.

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

Ondrej Pavelec made 50 saves as the Atlanta Thrashers downed the Ottawa Senators, 3-1, at Scotiabank Place.

They lost to the Senators 4-2 on Oct. 10. a The Thrashers lost their fourth consecutive game Thursday and dropped to third in the Southeast Division.

Jim Slater returned to the Thrashers' lineup Thursday after being a healthy scratch the past seven games.

Alex Ovechkin #8 and Alexander Semin #28 of the Washington Capitals celebrate their team's fourth goal during an NHL hockey game against the Philadelphia Flyers on October 27, 2009 at the Verizon Center in Washington, DC.

It's looking like the Thrashers may go into tomorrow night's game against Washington without both top liners Ilya Kovalchuk and Nik Antropov.

Ilya Kovalchuk was upbeat, especially for someone with a broken bone in his right foot that will cost him four weeks of the season.

The Atlanta Thrashers have a month to preview their possible future without star forward Ilya Kovalchuk .

With a sold-out home crowd braced for the possibility of witnessing Montreal's worst start in nearly 70 years, a couple of newcomers gave Canadiens' fans an opportunity to celebrate a victory.

The Thrashers lost more than a game Saturday. They lost Ilya Kovalchuk. Hyosub Shin, hshin@ajc.com Thrashers forward Rich Peverley maintains possession of the puck as Sharks' forward Ryan Vesce moves in.

Heatley notched a goal and an assist amongst the boos in Atlanta and Patrick Marleau added two tallies as the Sharks outlasted the Thrashers, 4-3, on Saturday night at Philips Arena.