The NHL All-Star Game came at a perfect time for the Thrashers who were significantly banged up in January. After a weekend of rest and relaxation Evander Kane will make his return to the lineup tonight versus the Islanders (get two tickets for $36 thanks to the AJC Weeknight Deal) after missing four games with [...]
Like players who don’t get selected to play in the All-Star Game, some fans use All-Star Weekend to take a break from hockey and rest up for the stretch run. If you’re one of those fans and you didn’t catch our All-Star coverage over the weekend, don’t worry. The links for just about everything we [...]
When the Thrashers announced that Dustin Byfuglien would be switching back to his natural position of defense after making a name for himself as a dominant power forward in last year’s playoffs Jeremy Roenick called out the team and said it would be a disaster. Now Buff is an All-Star defenseman and a legitimate Norris [...]
Thrashers All-Star Dustin Byfuglien will compete in two skills competition events this evening, representing Team Lidstrom in the hardest shot competition and the skills relay. For a full list of the events, their descriptions, and the participants check NHL.com. You can watch the whole thing live on VERSUS. In the mean time, here is some [...]
Dustin Byfuglien was the 14th pick (7th round) in the NHL All-Star Fantasy Draft after being taken by Team Lidstrom, making him the third defenseman picked for his team (behind Duncan Keith and Shea Weber, and fifth dman taken in the draft (Team Staal took Zdeno Chara and Marc Staal). Buff rejoins his old Chicago [...]
Prior to tonight’s NHL All-Star fantasy Draft (presented by Cisco) the players filed through the media gauntlet and answered question after question, then moved down the line and asked many of those questions again. We talked to Dustin Byfuglien for a video feature but we’ll give Blueland Blog readers the scoop and let you in [...]
Atlantathrashers.com is in Raleigh for the 2011 NHL All-Star Weekend and we plan to have plenty of video and photos of/from Dustin Byfuglien. We’ll talk to him tonight before the Fantasy draft in which Eric Staal and Nicklas Lidstrom pick the two squads and we’ll get his reaction about where he got picked afterwards. All-Star [...]
The Thrashers have reassigned Tim Stapleton and Nigel Dawes to the Chicago Wolves and have also swapped goaltender Peter Mannino for Drew MacIntyre. The Wolves are in San Antonio tonight and Oklahoma City tomorrow night before the AHL shuts down for their All-Star Classic on Sunday and Monday (Thrashers prospects Spencer Machacek and Paul Postma [...]
NHL teams are not permitted to hold practices or any other functions involving players during the four-and-a-half day All-Star break (it began this morning and goes through 2 pm on Monday) and most players take advantage of the break by leaving town to either go home or go somewhere warm (rarely is home warm at [...]
Atlantathrashers.com will be in Raleigh for NHL All-Star weekend to bring you exclusive coverage and news as Dustin Byfuglien represents the Thrashers. We’ll also be posting video and features from NHL.com, including live streaming video from a variety of events. Here is the schedule for those live events that will be linked to from the [...]
