Rookie goalie Ondrej Pavelec stopped 36 shots, Ilya Kovalchuk scored his eighth goal in his last four games and the Atlanta Thrashers beat the Florida Panthers 4-1 on Friday night. Vyacheslav Kozlov, Chris Thorburn and Marian Hossa also scored for Atlanta, which improved to 7-3 under interim head coach Don Waddell after starting the season 0-6 under Bob Hartley.