Thrashers One Step Closer to a New Coach

The AJC has two great posts on the Atlanta Thrashers Coaching search.

From a breakdown of whispered names to a flat out recap of the process, it's the most hockey news we've heard here in the ATL since Illya watched on the sidelines as Russia won one.

Waddel! We need a Coach that can handle these young guys! What say you?!

"We all have different needs," Waddell said, adding that he needs someone whose strength is developing young players. "Our best players are young players. We have to make sure we have somebody who can not only win games but help these players continue to become the best hockey players they can."

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Y! Team Reports Surprisingly Good

See for yourself....

• Atlanta Hawks Team Report (6/6/08)
• Atlanta Falcons Team Repot (6/6/08) - I just love this quote... FINALLY!
  

  “The coaches are putting me in a variety of spots in a variety of sets,” Norwood said. “They’re going to line me up at receiver, running back, shoot, maybe some quarterback. They’re going to put me in some one-on-one matchups to get me in the open field.”

• Atlanta Thrasher Team Report (6/6/08)
• Atlanta Braves Team Report (6/6/08)

What's missing from the braves report is the quote from Chipper all but dooming the Braves to a losing year due to Smoltz surgery. I couldn't believe the response! !

Not having him at all for the rest of the season is devastating, flat out devastating," third baseman Chipper Jones said. "Going into this season, I said there's one guy on this club we cannot do without. That's John Smoltz."

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Most Distraught Atlanta Franchise Is The Only One With A Plan

One year ago, I'd say that there was only one franchise in Atlanta Sports that had any sort of plan at winning. It wasn't that the Falcons weren't trying, it was just a number of events that took them out of the entire equation. The Hawks, well, they're the Hawks... and are we really going to talk about the Thrashers? Yes, the Atlanta Braves, the staple and example of a winning team seemed, at the time to be the only one with a plan.

Today, there is still only one Franchise that seems like it has a plan to win while the others are languishing with unanswered questions.

The Atlanta Hawks have yet to select a GM and with their ownership situation it will be harder to lure any of the top candidates. Until that is settled, it leaves the coach up in the air as well as the two Joshes.

The Atlanta Braves are doing well with Chipper and their patchwork bullpen, but Smoltz had a set back and there is no consistency out of their starting pitching.

The Thrashers traded away a player that is taking his team to the Stanley Cup...

Yes, The Atlanta Falcons, believe it or not, have developed a winning formula. They've hired a GM for a winner, drafted a winner at QB, hired a winner at Coach and for once have some depth there, at least in terms of backups. They have an actual owner.... there's a lot of positives. There's some hope at least. There's some question marks about the team obviously, but there is only one place to go for the Falcons and that's most certainly is up. To think last year, this was the leagues worst franchise to come into this year with a team with some major promise. Maybe not this year, but in short time the Falcons seem poised to get rid of that record for years without a consecutive winning record.

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