Thrashers @ Toronto 12/01/05

The Atlanta Thrashers are once again crippled with injuries in goal just as they head onto a tough, three-game road trip to Philadelphia, Toronto and Montreal.

Mike Dunham is the latest to go down. He's out at least three weeks after reinjuring his groin, while fellow veteran Steve Shields (knee) is a week away from returning, and highly touted rookie Kari Lehtonen (groin) is still three to four weeks away.

``It's unbelievable, it's incredible what's going on,'' Thrashers GM Don Waddell said Thursday. ``But you have to find a way. That's the price of poker.''

The Thrashers, desperate for help in goal, signed Shields on Oct. 27 while Dunham and Lehtonen were both out with groin injuries. Shields started three games, winning one, before suffering a right knee injury. By then Dunham had returned to take over the load, but then he went down again during a win last Saturday over Carolina. Lehtonen has been out since the first game of the season.

Rookie netminders Adam Berkhoel and Michael Garnett will handle the load until Shields returns, including the Friday game against the Flyers.

Dunham was placed on injured reserve Tuesday and Garnett was called up from AHL Chicago. Berkhoel was in goal Wednesday night in a 7-3 home loss to the New York Islanders. Read more...

NIN - Calgary, Alberta 11/17/05

See Trent Reznor and the rest of Nine Inch Nails when they take to the stage November 17 at Calgary's Pengrowth Saddledome.

Trent, a 24-year-old keyboardist from rural PA, dropped out of college in '84, moved to the steel wasteland of Cleveland and took a job as a studio technician to learn music engineering. Though he's a trained classical pianist, he hasn't looked at a piece of sheet music in five years. He didn't want traditional music theory and technique to interfere with Nine Inch Nails' raw, uncalculated debut LP, Pretty Hate Machine. Reshaping '80's mope rock, Trent and producers John Fryer and Flood fuse misery with technology. They take advantage of the massive appeal of the Cure, Depeche Mode and the Smiths(the dead on expression of post-adolescent discontent) and make it danceable. The album ia a collection of dense electronic noise, synthesized beats and powerful laments that wallow in introspection, attack with violent screams and haunt with seductive, droning whispers. The songs - the first Trent's ever written - are fraught with religious references, Trent sometimes putting himself in Christ's place. Read more on Nine Inche Nails

Henry Rollins in Vancouver 11/14/05

Singer, writer, actor, book publisher, social commentator and punk renaissance man, Henry Rollins goes on tour, in an evening of spoken word. Former member of groundbreaking LA punk rockers Black Flag, and currently pursuing his musical demons in the super-heavy rock group The Rollins Band - Rollins has been relentlessly busy, recording albums, writing books and poetry, performing spoken-word tours, writing various magazine columns, acting in several movies, appearing on MTV and has taken on co-hosting duties for the new TLC show Full Metal Challenge. Basing his commentary on his own life experiences, Rollins covers everything from politics to travel, articulating his thoughts of the world and those in it without holding anything back. Henry Rollins is a potent and provocative speaker - gripping, funny, thought provoking and thoroughly entertaining.