The great thing about the NHL is that no matter what team you support there are always a couple of great players in the roster. Just using for example the bottom 3 teams right now
Oilers have Taylor Hall, Jordan Eberle and Sam Gagner;
Devils have Patrick Elias, Ilya Kovalchuk and Martin Brodeur
Islanders have John Tavares, Matt Moulson and Mark Streit (ok, this is by far the weakest roster of any NHL team out there right now but I think I made my point)
The Thrashers on the other hand have Kane, Ladd, Bogosian, Enstrom, Peverley, Antropov, Pavelec etc. so they're not that bad a team altogether and being a Rangers fan you know all about quality players underperforming of course.
The great hope in the Thrashers roster has to be Pavelec though. I always draft high on my fantasy hockey keepers so this time I took Halak and Rinne over him but I had him last year and when he gets a run in the #1 spot his numbers can be phenomenal; just inconsistency with young goalies is always an issue and the fact that most of the Thrashers defense sucks so they take around 35-40 shots per game on average.