Atlanta Thrashers Tickets Awesomeseating.com is your go-to broker for NHL tickets. Whether you’re looking for cheap seats behind the goalie, a luxury sky-box or something closer to the ice, we’re your Awesome ticket broker for Atlanta Thrashers Tickets for the regular season and Atlanta Thrashers Tickets. The Atlanta Thrashers entered the NHL for the 1999-00 season, two years after Atlanta was awarded a new NHL franchise. The Thrashers are Atlanta’s second whack at the puck. From 1972-79 the city was home to the Atlanta Flames, a franchise that was moved to Alberta, Canada for the 1980-81 season and renamed the Calgary Flames. Home ice for the Thrashers is the Philips Arena. The Atlanta Thrashers started off like most new franchises – horribly. The team won only 14 of 82 games in its first season. The Thrashers showed steady improvement up to the 2004-05 lock-out. Though they failed to make the 2003-04 playoffs, the team finished second, though admittedly in a weak division. When the team returned to the ice for the 2005–06 season, it did so with a legitimate shot at making the playoffs for the first time in franchise history. Between the end of the lock-out and the start of the season the team signed a number of veterans: Mike Dunham, Bobby Holik, Peter Bondra, Jaroslav Modry and Scott Mellanby. They also completed a blockbuster trade with the Ottawa Senators that saw Danny Heatley go north while forward Marian Hossa and defenseman Greg de Vries headed south. The Atlanta Thrashers won a club-record 41 games over the regular season but, despite amassing 90 points - 12 more points than it had in finishing second in the division in 2003-04, they only finished third, out of the playoffs once again. It is a credit to the Thrasher organization that the team went into the 2006-07 season as fired up as it did, after the heart break of the previous spring and losing its best scorer, veteran Marc Savard, to the Boston Bruins in the off-season. New players were added to take up the slack and team veterans Ilya Kovalchuk and Marian Hossa had career years. The franchise’s high expectations were rewarded with its first-ever division title and first ever playoff berth. Making the 2007 playoffs has been the Thrasher’s high point to date. The team was swept in straight games by the New York Rangers, including a 7-0 blow-out in Game 3. The 2007-08 season saw the team finish with 21 fewer points, 4th place in the division and out of the playoffs once again. The Atlanta Thrashers are in the Southeast Division of the 3-division Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League. Awesomeseating.com offers cheap tickets and luxury tickets for all NHL teams. We have NHL Playoff Tickets as soon as the playoff situation finalizes. Buy your cheap tickets to Atlanta Thrashers hockey from your trusted ticket broker right now. |