Updates on the NHL’s Possible Return to Atlanta Harrison Smajovits | February 26, 2026 The tone surrounding a return of the NHL to Atlanta has changed quite a bit over the past year. For much of 2024 and 2025, confidence was high. It seemed…
2 Former Thrashers Still Active in the NHL Declan Schroeder | November 3, 2025 Unlike the common bird itself, former Atlanta Thrashers are a fading breed. Now more than a decade removed from the Thrashers’ move to Winnipeg in 2011, the number of former…
The Marian Hossa for Dany Heatley Trade Revisited Danny McCloskey | September 16, 2025 Twenty years ago, the Ottawa Senators and Atlanta Thrashers shocked the hockey world in a superstar for superstar (plus Greg de Vries) trade. Let’s take a look back at the…
Atlanta NHL Expansion Group Bringing Ambitious Plans to Table Harrison Smajovits | May 11, 2025 The push for a third NHL franchise in Atlanta gains more legs. A group in Forsyth County (north Atlanta) believes they are in the home stretch of having a strong…
Ilya Kovalchuk: A Career Retrospective Christian Thorsberg | April 15, 2024 On Jan. 6, 2006, late in the second period of a regular-season Pittsburgh Penguins-Atlanta Thrashers tilt, a 22-year-old Ilya Kovalchuk is left dangerously uncovered on the near-side point of the…
How Viable Would Another NHL Team Be in Atlanta? Harrison Smajovits | March 16, 2024 The push to expand the NHL beyond 32 teams gains extra external force. This week, an Atlanta-based group, including former NHL player and NHL on TNT analyst Anson Carter, made…
Nik Antropov’s Hockey Journey From Kazakhstan to the NHL Spencer Lazary | January 26, 2023 You don’t see an NHL player from Kazakhstan every day but look no further than Nik Antropov. On Feb. 18, 1980, he was born in Oskemen, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union; on…
Re-Doing the Atlanta Thrashers’ 1999 Expansion Draft Josh Lewis | September 2, 2022 Originally published in Sep. 2020 The Atlanta Thrashers were the second of four expansion teams to hit the ice around the turn of the 21st century, playing their inaugural season…
Top 5 Draft Busts in Atlanta Thrashers History Declan Schroeder | May 1, 2022 This article was originally written in June, 2014 and updated in May, 2020. The Atlanta Thrashers had a brief, disappointing tenure in the NHL. The main reason they failed was…
Winnipeg Jets Should Honour Their Thrashers History Daniel Blanda | December 6, 2020 To say the Winnipeg Jets missed the mark on their Reverse Retro jerseys would be an understatement. The jerseys are lackluster and fail to breathe new life into an already…
Winnipeg Jets/Atlanta Thrashers’ Coaching History Declan Schroeder | November 20, 2020 While it’s the players jumping over the bench that score the goals, make the big bucks, and get most of the glory, the man behind the bench is also of…
Best Jets/Thrashers from Around the World Declan Schroeder | July 6, 2020 Throughout its two-decade history, the Atlanta Thrashers/Winnipeg Jets franchise have had great players from all around the globe. 322 players have suited up for either the Thrashers, Jets, or both…