After a terrible start to the season in Atlanta. The team was having a brutal skating and positional practice with no pucks. After 2 hours of hard drills from coach Barry Trotz the team was working on Powerplay positional play with the teams horrible start on the powerplay being a direct indicator of the teams slow start. The 4.3% the team is currently clicking at is embarassing said G.M Kirk Shuck.
While working on the drills with his regular line-mate Dany Heatley, Marian Gaborik made a mistake in a powerplay drill and Heatley made a european joke towards him, Marian seemed a little angered by the comment but nothing came of the incident. Later in the same drill the same thing happened and Heatley made his joke a little more vocal and Gaborik snapped and went after Heatley the two ended dropping the gloves and Heatley landed a few good shots on Gaborik before Zdeno interupted the fight and picked Heatley off of Marian..
After practice coach Barry Trotz was asked what he thought of the fight and all he could say was, "At least their showing they have a little fight in them." When asked if they would still be on the same line Trotz chuckled and said, "We have enough talent on this team we can separate them even strength but expect the two to still play powerplay together."
Could either player be on the trade block? will they skate together on a PP unit?? new lines and more reactions to the fight in tommorow's edition of the Thrasher News, where we sit down one on one with Sheldon Souray the Captain of this struggling team.
