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Slacking.
Since I don't live anywhere near Ottawa, I haven't been able to attend any of training camp. Posters on various message boards have had mainly good things to say about Marty: that he's fast, and that he seems to be in mid-season form already. The only negative I've read is that he and Alfredsson didn't seem to have much chemistry in the first pre-season game against Toronto, but that's something that will presumably correct itself. They've never really played together before except on the powerplay, and then Alfredsson would generally be playing the point. That said, he did get an assist on an Alfredsson goal. He also took the opening faceoff (and lost it to Lindros) due to an error on the official gamesheet.
Marty didn't take part in the physicals on the first day of camp as he was getting over an illness, and also didn't practice yesterday. From the Ottawa Citizen:
Murray hasn't been afraid to crack a few one-liners during training camp.
Asked why Martin Havlat wasn't on the ice for practice yesterday, Murray said, "It's in his contract, he can't practice more than five times a week."
When the laughs stopped, Murray revealed that Havlat was nursing a sore arm, following a slash.
I'm not sure if his sickness means that he got away once again without taking a roster picture, but that should be determined within the next few days. I recently found the pictures Hana sent from when he was playing with Znojmo, and Shamir from SensNetwork was nice enough to send me some pictures from when Dany Heatley was introduced to the community, and I'm hoping to get all of those up within the next couple of hours. Ok, I'm aiming for a couple of hours, but I'll be satisfied with a couple of days.
If anyone else out there has some pictures they'd like to share, please feel free to send them to me. You will of course be given full credit, and if you should eventually change your mind and like them removed, I can do that too.
I personally got my first taste of watching hockey again last night, in the form of the Wings-Avalanche pre-season game, and that was enough to get me excited to get this site back up to date. Even without Henrik Zetterberg playing, who is clearly Marty's evil Swedish twin.
Posted by jz at September 22, 2005 09:26 AM