Thrashers on my Mind: Team President Waddell says team wants to stay in Atlanta, Team’s future remains unclear.

While there has been a lot of talk of the Phoenix Coyotes moving back to Winnipeg, the Atlanta Thrashers have been receiving more press of late and with that happening, we here at IC have the Thrashers on our Minds.

Public Broadcasting Atlanta:  No playoffs for Atlanta, team’s future uncertain (audio).  Hard to argue that the fans of the Thrashers have been let down by ownershipPicture below doesn’t include the 10/11 season.  That’s a lot of futility.

TSN:  Thrashers president Waddell says team wants to stay in AtlantaHe has quite a lot on his plate.  First he has to figure out if they can settle the ownership situation and then he needs to figure out how to get his team into the playoff’s for the 2nd time in it’s relatively short history.

Atlanta Journal Constitution:  Thrashers unclear about futureVivlamore lays out the situation in Atlanta quite well.  This story is an excellent read.

Atlanta Examiner:  Thrashers ownership not talking to anyone about relocating team.  It is interesting because in the normal course you would usually hear ownership threaten that the team could move (see Islanders & Penguins for recent examples of same).  Whereas in Atlanta, because the situation is so tenuous, they can’t use the standard NHL leverage.

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David Minuk

Working hard on a daily basis to provide the latest Winnipeg Jets and Manitoba Moose news for our readers and listeners. I also appear on the Illegal Curve Hockey Show every Saturday on our YouTube channel as well as the Illegal Curve Post-Game Show after every single Jets game. And I occasionally jump in the play-by-play booth at Canada Life to provide colour analysis during Manitoba Moose games.

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