Jim Slater News

This just in: Jim Slater has re-signed with the Thrashers. He accepted his one-year qualifying offer.

The Atlanta Thrashers have re-signed restricted free agent forward Jim Slater, according to Executive Vice President and General Manager Don Waddell.

Our old pal Craig Custance twittered or is it twittedor twittledanyway, he informed us by way of "twitter" yesterday that the "Thrashers have made qualifying offers to at least three potential restricted free agents - Kari Lehtonen, Jim Slater and Colby Armstrong." This now leaves Jordan Lavallee, Scott Lehman, Grant Lewis, Chris Thorburn, Dan ...

Anderson Cooper interviews human-rights activist Ahmad Batebi, who discusses his imprisonment in Iran and his escape.

Brooks Laich posted a goal and two assists as Washington used a third-period surge to top Atlanta, 6-4, in the front end of a home-and-home series at Verizon Center.

RECORD WATCH: Rich Peverley entered Friday night's game at Florida on pace to set a Thrashers record for best plus-minus rating by a center.

Todd White scored in the shootout after Ilya Kovalchuk rallied the Atlanta Thrashers from a three-goal deficit to a 5-4 victory over the New York Rangers on Thursday night.

The Thrashers beat the Rangers in a shootout Feb. 3 in New York, but Atlanta faces a much different team tonight at Philips Arena.

Ottawa goaltender Brian Elliott stops Atlanta's Jim Slater back in January. The Sens' goaltending will have to be sharp on Saturday as the Thrashers put on a late surge.

The Thrashers trailed 4-1 midway through the second period, but Kovalchuk had a hand in each of the next three goals.

Tonight, for the first time this season, the Thrashers take the ice knowing that whatever they do there is zero possibility they will make the playoffs.

Greetings from Tampa, where the Thrashers finish the final two-games-in-two-days test of the season.

Atlanta Thrashers goalie Johan Hedberg, of Sweden, has the net land on him during the second period of a hockey game against the Tampa Bay Lightning Saturday, March 21, 2009, in Tampa, Fla.

The Atlanta Thrashers will face off against the Red Wings at Phillips Arena on Friday more or less out of the playoff hunt as they sit thirteenth in the Eastern Conference, fifteen points below the playoff cut.

MONEY RACE: The Thrashers are out of the playoff race but remain in an attendance race with millions of dollars at stake.

As noted earlier this afternoon, the Red Wings won't have the services of Tomas Holmstrom and may not have Valtteri Filppula in the lineup against the Atlanta Thrashers on Friday evening.

Thrashers players Zach Bogosian, Ilya Kovalchuk and Ron Hainsey are expected to practice Thursday and are listed as probable for Friday's home game against Detroit, the team said Wednesday.

Ilya Kovalchuk might return to the Thrashers' lineup as early as Tuesday night at Pittsburgh, Thrashers coach John Anderson said Monday.

Five consecutive victories give the Thrashers the longest current winning streak in the NHL and match the longest previous winning streaks in franchise history.

Here's the latest on the injury front. The Thrashers say Jim Slater's condition will be evaluated by the team's doctors on Monday and that he is doubtful for Monday night's game against Washington and Tuesday ...