By MIKE KNOBLER

Team scoring leader Ilya Kovalchuk will sport a new look for the opening of Thrashers camp on Saturday: He’s missing two lower front teeth.

It happened in Moscow.

“I was playing with young guys, like 15, 16 years old,” Kovalchuk said Thursday. “I used an old mask. They were trying to get the puck from me. One of them high-sticked me right in the face.

“That’s OK. That’s hockey.”

So now he looks like … “a real hockey player,” Kovalchuk said with a hole in his smile.

He won’t look that way for long, though. On Monday, he’s scheduled to get implants.