He returned to the team to play thirty-one games in the season but was traded to the Ottawa Senators before the start of the season. In the winter of it was announced that Atlanta would host the All-Star Game, but the game was never played because the league canceled the season due to considerable financial differences between players and team owners. Veteran sports administrator Bernie Mullin was named president and chief executive officer for both the Thrashers and Hawks.
Center Patrik Stefan, the last remaining original player, was traded to the Dallas Stars before the season. In the season the Thrashers qualified, for the first and only time, for the Stanley Cup playoffs but lost in the first round. In Hartley was fired; Waddell served as the interim coach until , when John Anderson was hired as the new head coach. Near the end of the season, Kovalchuk was traded to the New Jersey Devils.
The team played its last game on April 10, , losing to the Pittsburgh Penguins. The franchise also created the Junior Authors program, which encouraged young students to write books about ice hockey.
Marine Corps and a blood drive with the American Red Cross. Starrs, Chris. Starrs, C. Franchise All-Time Points. Regular Season Playoffs Overall Totals. Ilya Kovalchuk F 2. Vyacheslav Kozlov F 3. Marc Savard F 63 5.
Dany Heatley F 80 Franchise All-Time Goals. Dany Heatley F 80 5. Bryan Little F 68 81 Franchise All-Time Assists. Marc Savard F 63 Eric Boulton F 22 56 2. Jeff Odgers F 12 27 3.
Garnet Exelby D 6 46 4. Chris Tamer D 12 50 5. Andy Sutton D 21 87 Franchise All-Time Games played. Patrik Stefan F 59 4. Eric Boulton F 22 34 56 5. Jim Slater F 47 53 Franchise All-Time Points per Game. Marc Savard F 63 1. Donald Audette F 78 39 82 1. Ilya Kovalchuk F 1. They competed in the Eastern Conference. They moved to Manitoba and became the new Winnipeg Jets. This also included teams in Nashville, Columbus and St.
Paul, in which each new franchise would begin play as its respective new arena was completed. The birth of the new franchise marked NHL hockey's return to Georgia, as the Atlanta Flames established in departed for Canada in to become the Calgary Flames.
The Flames had been the League's first foray into the southern U. The nickname "Thrashers," named after Georgia's state bird, the brown thrasher was selected from a fan poll. By coincidence, the first encampment circa which would later become Atlanta was called Thrasherville, and a historical marker of this is located just down from the arena in front of the State Bar of Georgia the former home of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.
The newly formed Thrashers selected Patrik Stefan with the first overall selection and Luke Sellars with their 30th overall pick second pick of the second round in the NHL Entry Draft.
However, the entire NHL Entry Draft was a major disappointment for the Thrashers as all 11 of their draft picks were out of the NHL by the team's last season of existence; Stefan played the most games for the Thrashers from that draft, Their first two picks Stefan and Sellars were called two of the biggest disappointments in draft history; NHL.
This turn of events was a major surprise, as not only did the media hype Stefan as a franchise player, but hockey experts also considered then-Thrashers General Manager Don Waddell to be a man with excellent scouting ability.
Captain Kelly Buchberger scored the franchise's first goal in the loss and the team went on to finish their first season in last place in the Southeast Division, with a record of 14 wins, 61 losses and seven ties for a total of 39 points. Atlanta had the second overall pick in the NHL Entry Draft ; this draft brought better results, as the player chosen with that pick, Dany Heatley , went on to become one of the team's best players.
The team also had a fine choice in the Draft, with first overall pick Ilya Kovalchuk. The early years of the Atlanta Thrashers saw a sharp increase of hockey fans in Atlanta. Ticket sales for Thrashers games averaged at 10, per night with many of them being season tickets. The overall experience of a Thrasher's game was unique compared to other Atlanta teams. A section of the arena was dedicated to season ticket holders that called themselves the "Nasty Nest".
The "Nasty Nest" would chant and shout at the opposing team to disrupt them while they played. The Thrashers also had two Thrasher bird heads that would face opposite to the scoreboard. The Thrasher heads would open their beaks to reveal a flamethrower, which would ignite when the team scored a goal.
It was at this time that the franchise adopted a motto "Believe in Blueland" which was often used in advertising.
Tragedy struck the team just eight days after the sale as star forward Dany Heatley crashed his Ferrari in a one-car accident that seriously injured both himself and Thrashers center Dan Snyder. The Balkan. Similar to what we did for Drama in The Desert- The Phoenix Coyotes Ownership Saga — Illegal Curve has compiled a comprehensive list of the organizations, people and reporters that have been involved in the Drama in Dixie.
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