Isn't winning fun?

Yesterday at the morning skate I was chatting with Craig Custance from the AJC (based on the response to yesterday's trivia questions most of you read his blog) and I mentioned that Sim really needed to score. He'd gone almost a month without a goal and was in danger of being bumped off of Kovy's line. Fast forward to the first period and there's Jon Sim scoring the second goal of he game. I ran into Dan Kamal between periods up in the press box and I predicted Sim would get another one so he could tie his career high for goals in a season. Mission accomplished. Jon Sim finished the night with 17 goals on the season, the same number he scored all of last season. Other milestones from the game:

• The Thrashers tied the franchise record with five straight wins.
• Slava Kozlov picked up his 400th career assist and is one goal short of 300. How sweet would it be if his 300th goal was also his 700th point?
• The Thrashers tied the team record by returning to 13 games above .500.
• The team tied the franchise record for goals in the second period with four.
• Kari Lehtonen played in his 100th career game.
• Marian Hossa tied the team record with points in nine straight games.

Also worth mentioning:

• Eric Belanger has six goals and four assists in 11 games as a Thrasher. He had 20 points in 56 games with Carolina.
• Alexei Zhitnik has six assists in five games with Atlanta. He had 19 assists in 61 games with Philly and the Islanders.

And how about Keith Tkachuk? Does he know how to stick up for a teammate or what? I'm still waiting for hockeyfights.com to post the video (TSN has it but I hate their video player- it takes forever to load, if it loads).

UPDATE: Hockeyfights.com has it right here.

I love that Kovy stood up for Hossa and I love that Walt came tearing in and schooled Bouillon. A lot of people are complaining about the 10-minute misconduct he got (it wasn't a misconduct

Everyone except the Holik line got in on the goal party (poor Jaroslav Halak) as six players had multi-point games and 10 Thrashers picked up points, including two more for "Zhits" and another assist for Havelid on the blueline. There honestly wasn't a single player on the roster who stood out as having a bad game, and the Thrashers goals for have finally caught up to their goals against for the first time in a while. Now if only Kovy could keep up this tear and get back to being a plus player like he was earlier in the season.