30 Dirty Players in 30 days: The Atlanta Thrashers

Posted Tuesday, August 4. 2009 by Warren Baker
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With one playoff appearance to their name - one that came and went without a single victory - the outlook of the Atlanta Thrashers is bleak.

With only nine seasons under their belt, it was pretty hard to find a real dirty player amongst all Atlanta players - Especially when I had just finished writing about Chris Pronger. In fact, type in "Atlanta Thrashers dirty player" and you see Chris Pronger on the first page. Maybe this is going to be a trend? But I promise, I have used Pronger for Anaheim and I won't "go to the well" again with St Louis or Philadelphia.

So who is dirty on Atlanta. Well, according to the (then) coach of the Tampa Bay Lightning John Tortorella, it's Eric Boulton.

“The [expletive] guy should be playing in the [expletive] East Coast Hockey League, but instead he takes out a [expletive] NHLer,” Tortorella said. “He’ll be suspended, but who [expletive] cares? No one wants to see him on the ice anyway.”

This was after a late elbow by Boulton on the Lightning's Paul Ranger. The elbow cost Boulton a 6 game suspension.

For what it's worth, Boulton felt bad for what he did.

""He called and felt pretty bad," Ranger told the Times. He apologized. I don't think he meant to cheap shot me or anything. It was a natural kind of reaction (from him).

Uh huh. Sorry about that man, sometimes I give out cheap shots. I don't mean to, they just happen.

Have a look at the clip below. Will Boulton be a repeat offender, or just a one elbow wonder?

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