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8 unusual facts about Atlanta Thrashers


Aran Fox

Fox did not manage to start a game for the Phoenix however,and was used as the back-up goaltender behind the ex-Atlanta Thrashers player Scott Fankhouser.

Brown Thrasher

The Brown Thrasher also was the inspiration for the name of Atlanta's former National Hockey League team, the Atlanta Thrashers.

Craig Custance

He covered the Atlanta Thrashers for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Geoffrey Connor

He went on to complete his fellowship at the Atlanta Sports Medicine and Orthopedic Center, where he provided services for the Atlanta Falcons of the NFL and the Atlanta Thrashers of the NHL (which have now become the Winnipeg Jets).

In Between Evolution

"Heaven Is a Better Place Today" doubles as a tribute to Dan Snyder, a player for the Atlanta Thrashers hockey team who died in an automobile accident nine months before the album's release, and for young men being sent to war.

Jeff Farkas

Despite his playoff success, Farkas appeared in only eight games for the Maple Leafs over the next two seasons, and three more for the Atlanta Thrashers during the 2002–03 season.

NHL 2000

The game has a total of 28 NHL teams, including the new expansion Atlanta Thrashers, which was the only team in the game that didn't exist in the 1998-99 season.

Pro Sport Hockey

Although the Winnipeg Jets are used in the game, they are not considered to be the current form of the team (which used to be the Atlanta Thrashers).


2008–09 Calgary Flames season

The Tim Hortons Brier took over the Saddledome in early March, forcing the Flames on a season long, seven-game road trip, during which the team struggled to a 3–4 record that saw them suffer lopsided losses to the Carolina Hurricanes, Atlanta Thrashers and Toronto Maple Leafs; the Flames surrendered 27 goals in the final five games of the trip.

Félix Potvin

Early in the 2005–06 season, the Atlanta Thrashers were in talks with Potvin in hopes of signing him after starting goaltender Kari Lehtonen and backup goaltender Mike Dunham went down with injuries.

Serge Payer

After a 10-month battle with the disease and subsequent bout with mononucleosis, he returned to the Rangers before eventually making his NHL debut on November 13, 2000, against the Atlanta Thrashers.


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Brad Tapper

However, on January 6, 2004, the Atlanta Thrashers recalled and traded Tapper to the Ottawa Senators for Daniel Corso.