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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Knightfall" data-source="post: 2947237" data-attributes="member: 2012">Thrashers sign veteran forward SimSports Ticker7/13/2006 11:31:22 PMATLANTA (Ticker) - The Atlanta Thrashers added another forward Thursday, signing left wing Jon Sim to a contract.  Terms were not disclosed.Sim split last season between Philadelphia and Florida, collecting 17 goals and a career-high 32 points in 72 games.  The 28-year-old began the campaign with the Flyers before being traded to the Panthers on January 23.A third-round pick of Dallas in 1996, Sim has registered 35 goals and 33 assists in 230 career games with the Stars, Nashville Predators, Los Angeles Kings, Pittsburgh Penguins, Flyers and Panthers.  He was a member of Dallas' Stanley Cup championship team in 1999.The Thrashers on Thursday also re-signed defenseman Mark Popovic and center Colin Stuart.Popovic, 23, appeared in seven games with Atlanta last season after being acquired from Anaheim in August.  A second-round pick of the Ducks in 2001, he made his NHL debut in 2003-04, when he played in one contest with the team.Selected in the fifth round of the 2001 draft, Stuart posted career highs of 12 goals and 14 assists with Chicago of the American Hockey League in 2005-06.  The 24-year-old is the older brother of Boston defenseman Mike Stuart, who made his NHL debut last campaign.</blockquote>