GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. — The big one-night-only return of the Atlanta Thrashers officially has a look.
The Atlanta Gladiators minor league club will bring the Thrashers back to life on Friday night for a much-anticipated game at Gas South Arena in Duluth.
The Arizona Coyotes-affiliated ECHL team is bringing back "Blueland" against the Greenville Swamp Rabbits with the Thrashers name and colors.
They did a jersey reveal on Monday to show exactly which colors - the Atlanta jersey that featured the Thrashers "T" logo as a large central piece of the jersey, surrounded by deep a deep blue chest, yellow striping and red shoulders/arms.
It was the first Thrashers road jersey used by the team when they came into the NHL in 1999.
According to a release, in addition to the Thrashers look and atmosphere, Friday's game will feature "special Thrashers rally towels," "specialty Thrashers merchandise including Thrashers t-shirts and pucks" as well as the Thrashers' original mascot in attendance.
The Atlanta Thrashers last played in the NHL in 2011, after a mostly underwhelming decade-plus run from their introduction as an expansion team in 1999. The team relocated to Winnipeg, Canada and became the Jets (the reincarnation, as it happened, of a previous NHL team that had left that city).
Four Thrashers from their final season - Blake Wheeler, Zach Bogosian, Evander Kane and Andrew Ladd - still play in the NHL.