The thrashers have aquired young centerman ryan getzlaf from the vancouver canucks along with the getzlaf the team got a 2nd round pik. to land ryan and the dp the thrashers gave up richard zednik, trevor daley and atlantas 1st.

When asked about the trade g.m shuck said, "adding ryan is a huge move for our franchise it allows us to keep marek svatos and let him develop. Getting ryan lets us play him with Ales Hemsky and Dany Heatley on the top line. With the second line being, Jeremy Roenick centering Jochen Hecht and Marek Svatos. Loosing trevor hurts our youthful defense but when we added bryan leetch for his vetern leadership we were crowded on the back end and felt as though we could make a move to boost our center position."