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Thrashers building team of the future through the draft.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
PHILADELPHIA _ If you favor the old-fashioned way general manager Don Waddell is building the Atlanta Thrashers, a couple of years removed from expansion, then you like that his rookie forwards, Dany Heatley and Ilya Kovalchuk, are leading their freshman class in points. Heatley had 17 and Kovalchuk 15 heading into the weekend.
Waddell's Thrashers are steadily building a team through the draft, a foreign concept in today's NHL, which emphasizes free agency. Atlanta has seven rookies on the roster, six of whom it drafted and one, defenseman Daniel Tjarnqvist, who was drafted by Florida in 1995 but had not signed or played in the league until now.
The draft was the basis of some strong clubs of yesteryear. The Flyers, the Islanders, the Canadiens, and a World Hockey Association import, the Oilers, all owe their early Stanley Cup success to drafting.
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