Island native Drew MacIntyre has a new home after he signed as an unrestricted free agent recently with the NHL’s Atlanta Thrashers.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
The 26-year-old goaltender from Battery Point wasn’t re-signed by the Milwaukee Admirals of the American Hockey League despite leading the AHL in wins (34), and finishing fifth in goals-against-average (2.30) and sixth in save percentage (.921) in 55 regular season games last year.
In 11 playoff games, MacIntyre posted a 7-4 record with one shutout, a 1.65 GAA and a .931 save percentage.
MacIntyre is 91-49-8, including nine shutouts, with a career 2.32 GAA and .919 save percentage in 155 AHL contests with the Grand Rapids Griffins, Manitoba Moose and Milwaukee, and has three straight seasons of at least 25 wins. 
The six-foot, one-inch, 185-pound MacIntyre, who played two games with the Vancouver Canucks in 2007-08, is 15-11 with a 1.82 GAA and a .929 save percentage in 28 career Calder Cup playoff games. 
MacIntyre, originally selected by the Detroit Red Wings in the fourth round in the 2001 NHL draft, bounced between the Wings’ AHL affiliate in Grand Rapids and its former ECHL squad in Toledo, Ohio, until Detroit traded him to Vancouver in 2006.
After two seasons with Vancouver’s AHL affiliate in Manitoba, the Canucks released him last summer and the Nashville Predators signed him to a one-year free-agent contract then assigned him to Milwaukee.