In case you missed last night’s 3-1 win over the Thrashers in Atlanta, here’s the NHL-approved highlight reel: If you’d……

Good job as always Empty.

You can serve me up some of that Kozlov-at-centre crow - he was very good last night.

Good pick up on the lack of traffic and letting Lehtonen see the puck on the 5-on-3 too easily. Good point. I thought they played the short 27 second 5-on-3 well, but your right, they still weren’t getting traffic in front on Lehtonen.

The Caps dominated so much early that I think they got ahead of themselves in second period - weren’t fighting the little battles the same way like they were expecting things to come easily. They started working again after the Atlanta goal though.

Kovalchuk has really matured. My opinion of him changed late last year, somewhere along the way he’s become hungry to win, rather than hungry for stats.

Little’s gonna be good one.

Its quite a thrill to see all that’s been seen and read and heard about the progress in pre-season turn into a 2 point night to start the season.

My one negative comment is Flash - he seemed to get knocked off the puck far too easily for my liking. He wasn’t terrible, but not the kind of game I want from my first line right wing. I recall one nice dish to Ovie, that was about it.

I’m focused on him just because I’m still in disbelief that he’s worthy of top line duty. I can’t wait to eat a big juicy crow over it, but for now I’m predicting Clark as a top 2 line regular once again real soon, and Steckel more often inserted into line 3.

I go to print my TicketFast order… and there is apparently a problem processing my tickets. TicketMaster is closed right now and not answering calls. They haven’t emailed me back. The glorious Saturday that I have planned for ages is at risk.

GRRR!