Atlanta Thrashers

The Atlanta Thrashers are a National Hockey League team based at Philips Arena in Atlanta, Georgia.

Founded: 1999-2000 (awarded June 25, 1997)

Arena: Philips Arena (capacity 19,008)

Uniform colors: light blue, navy blue, red, gold, white

Logo design: a stylized bird's head

Stanley Cup final appearances: none

Franchise history

The Atlanta Thrashers are one of the NHL's newest teams. They played their first game on October 2, 1999, losing 4-1 to the New Jersey Devils.

The Thrashers have never made the playoffs in their short history. Their best season was 2000-2001, where they won 23 out of 82 games.

The team name and logo come from the brown thrasher, the state bird of Georgia.

In September 2003 the team was sold to a group of executives [1] by Time Warner, along with the Atlanta Hawks pro basketball team, which the Thrashers share the arena with.

Players of Note

Hall of Famers:

Current stars:

• Ilya Kovalchuk
• Dany Heatley
• Slava Kozlov
• Marc Savard

Not to be forgotten:

• 37 Dan Snyder

Retired Numbers:

• 99 Wayne Gretzky (retired league-wide by the NHL)

Atlanta Thrashers official web site