Thrashers head coach John Anderson took a break from remodeling his home in Chicago to attend the team’s Prospect Development Camp last week. He sat down with AJC Thrashers beat writer Chris Vivlamore to discuss the team’s offseason moves, why the team struggled early last season and even how one comment landed him in Sports Illustrated.
At 16, he was playing with the Toronto Marlies, and two years later he was the team captain. But on the day he turned 18, he became part of the controversy that was the standard players contract for the OHA.
Q: What are your thoughts on the offseason acquisitions?
A: We got a pretty good player with the fourth pick [Evander Kane]. It gives us good youth at the core. Certainly, [Ilya] Kovalchuk is not old. [Bryan] Little and [Zach] Bogosian, Kari [Lehtonen] is not old. The strength of our team will be in our youth. It bodes well for the organization because we will be good for a long time.
[Nik] Antropov up the middle is a big, strong guy. We needed to add a little size, because if you saw the size of us last year, we weren’t an overly big team. [Pavel] Kubina, again, a bigger, stronger guy.
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