Welcome to the blog. this site will serve as a home for all of your Atlanta Thrashers Junior NHL All-Star Tournament news. The tournament kicks off on Friday at 9:30 a.m. at both the Cooler and Blueland at the MIC and features youth teams from Atlanta, Carolina, Nashville, Tampa Bay and Washington. They'll be visited by NHL alumni like Hockey Hall-of-Famers Tony Esposito and Rod Gilbert, former Thrashers captain Scott Mellanby and former Atlanta Flames Pat Quinn and Bill Clement. 

The Atlanta coaches will even have NHL ties, with Thrashers Associate Coach Brad McCrimmon, former NHL forward Scott Pearson and NHL referee Dan O’Rourke behind the bench for the Squirts and Thrashers Radio Analyst Jeff Odgers and former N.Y. Islander Yan Kaminsky serving as coaches for the Pee-Wee team.

You can get all of the details for the tournament in the press release right here, but keep checking the blog over the weekend for updates, stories and pictures.