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Atlanta Thrashers

Former National Hockey League team (1999–2011)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 1, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

The Atlanta Thrashers were a professional ice hockey team based in Atlanta. The city was granted a franchise in the National Hockey League (NHL) on June 25, 1997, and became the league's 28th franchise when it began play in the 1999–2000 season. They were members of the Southeast Division of the NHL's Eastern Conference, and played their home games at Philips Arena in downtown Atlanta.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Atlanta Thrashers” is former National Hockey League team (1999–2011). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Atlanta, Thrashers and Former, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1997, 1999, 2000—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Atlanta, Thrashers and Former is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “former National Hockey League team (1999–2011)” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 1, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1997, 1999 and 2000.

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This entry incorporates text from “Atlanta Thrashers” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.