Ondrej Pavelec will speak to media tomorrow in Duluth at the team’s practice facility, but the good news is that he has been medically cleared to play pending his passing of a post-concussion test. No timetable has been established for his return, but this is great news after that scary incident on opening night. Obviously he’ll need some time to get back in game shape and practice with the team before returning to action in a game situation.
I’ll have more directly from Ondrej tomorrow.
Great News! That was one of the strangest things I’ve seen in sports. It will be great to have Ondrej back, though Chris Mason did an awesome job holding down the fort!
Oh yea. Mason is helluva netminder! But Pavs is good too so we’d like to have him back soon so that Mannino doesn’t have to lose us too many games
Thank God!!! Glad he’s feeling better!! We miss him in Chicago but I follow him now with Atlanta on the internet. It was scary to watch! Can’t wait to see the beast return!!!
Great to hear!
Ben, can you tell me why this weekend’s past two games against Anaheim and San Jose were blacked out on Center Ice on Comcast?
It is a result of a battle between DISH network and Fox, don’t really understand why it affects games on center ice for me when I have Comcast but that was a byproduct from the info I read.
it blacked it out on directv too…. i was very angry. it wasnt on sportsouth or fox sports south either…. w.t.h. guys???
http://thrashers.nhl.com/club/page.htm?id=65006
Fox is involved in a dispute with Dish and their sports networks have been dropped by Dish. One of the consequences of the dispute is that the blackout restrictions for games not carried by Fox have not been lifted as they have in the past. A game is either on Center Ice or not on Center Ice. I am told that they do not have the ability to block a game on Center Ice for Dish but allow it for Comcast and other providers.
The good news is that you can watch four of the next five games on SportSouth and Fox Sports South.