Thrashers

Never mind that two previous incarnations, the Flames and the Thrashers, both struggled financially and wound up relocating to Canadian cities.

The Thrashers relocated and became the Jets after the 2010-11 season.

Watching a movie screen through a car window seems like a far cry from headbanging to Metallica when the young-and-hungry thrashers played a multi-night stand at SA's Cameo Theater back in 1985.

A few years later the Thrashers became the second Atlanta-based hockey team to move to Canada, becoming the Winnipeg Jets.

Aliu was eventually traded to the then-Atlanta Thrashers in June 2010.

Many Thrashers fans are still upset about being ridiculed for a perceived lack of support after the team moved.

There were many more birds that were at the pond the days I was shooting the Blue Birds, including Robins, the Sage Thrashers, House Finch, White Crowned Sparrows, Cardinals and many more.

The squads included Five Town Windjammers, Broad Cove Bucs, Rockland, Belfast Lions (White), Belfast Lions (Blue), Lisbon Greyhounds, Medomak Valley and R&D Thrashers.

To go along with the fact he was credited with an overtime goal in his time with the Philadelphia Phantoms, Niittymaki will always be remembered by Flyers’ fans for his dominance over the Atlanta Thrashers.

When the world gives them the Atlanta Thrashers, they give the world The Guess Who.

A second incarnation of the Winnipeg Jets returned, after True North Sports & Entertainment bought the Atlanta Thrashers and moved the team to Winnipeg in time for the 2011 hockey season.

In professional ice hockey, the city hosted the 56th NHL All-Star Game in 2008, three years before the Thrashers moved.