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Nhl news and rumors today – We’ve seen trades and free agent signings lately, but this is a juicy topic we need to get into. Even watching nhl highlights of the quebec nordiques vs montreal canadiens especially, begs the question of a return or ” bring back the nordiques ” relocation given the arizona coyotes arena situation, or even the ottawa senators or florida panthers at times. But gary bettman is.. well, him. NHL hockey highlights trade rumours reaction goal horns quebec city nhl team habs fans might have a hand in this whole ordeal. Also, Now that the nhl 24 reveal trailer is upon us, hockey news will continue to trickle in and we’ll cover it. Montreal canadiens quebec nordiques expansion is equally unlikely. nhl 2023
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tbf im from phoenix and youth hockey in arizona is huge, so i think thats why the auston thing gets brought up. it's a hotbed for talent
I’m a Habs fan and want to see the Nordiques back.
Sorry but NO ONE wants Quebec to have another hockey team! LITERALLY NO ONE!
Ya don’t mention ottawa for relocation lol. Hold this dislike and unsubscribe
And nhl will make a lot money if they bring them back
This is coming a Nordiques fan that lost his team when he was 11. There's more things that don't add up that do……1. Let's start with the time zone. Detroit fought for years to get moved to the east, Quebec would be worse because they'd play in the Pacific. Of course we could move teams around but how is that fair to anyone. 2. Opening night tickets for the Remparts are like 25$ for seats behind the penalty box. If you listen to the population talk about Trudeau, everyone say's they're broke because of him. Who's going to buy the tickets? (That wasn't anything for Trudeau, it's pointing out that it sound's a bit contradictional to say your starving but also say you have enough for NHL games. 3. Player's not wanting to play in Canada was one of the subjects of the off season. 4. Quebec is extremely french, not that inviting for families………add that to everything you said + I'm sure you left a few things out. I admire you're thinking with your brain and not your heart because 95-96 was a hard year for me 😂. I like peter Bondra and my team had Panthers colors. To this day, I'm still a Caps and Panther's fan. When they left, I saw them go to the finals and beat my new favourite team. I'm still recovering. Last year didn't help
I am and have always been a Leafs fan. Growing up in S. Ontario, it was natural but I was also a Nordiques fan because of the Stastny's.
I loved their style of play and loved the team's potential!
I hope the NHL can figure it out that hockey has a history that is rooted in Canada and if, somehow, the hockey market sees a struggling period they will rely on Canadian fans to see them through.
I think it is time for the NHL to consider the Canadian market! I may be stretching here, but I have always wondered if a regional team based in the Martimes would work? Maybe not, but wow! It would be great if it could!
Ex-Montrealer living in the US. Yes, for nostalgia it would be nice to have the Nordiques back. But realistically as you alluded to, it would be a poor business decision for the league. Nordique fans are not going to produce new revenue for the league. Yes, they will support their team and be a passionate fan base, but it's not new money. The NHL wants to grow. It needs new fans. What I worry about is what will the support level be for the Nordiques once they've been back for 5, 10 15 years. Will they still be selling out? Look at the Jets in Winnipeg. They are having attendance issues. One thing I hate hearing is look at the support for the Remparts. It's two different levels of hockey. It's 2 different price points. The junior ticket is a fraction of an NHL ticket. It's easy to sell out jnuior. With the tickets being way more expensive for an NHL team, how many people in Quebec could afford this year in, year out? My friends back in Montreal tell me i don't understand hockey like they do. They tell me they are surrounded by Nordiques fans and hardcore hockey fans know that Quebec will be successful. If the economy goes bad, the canadian dollar tanks and the nostalgia of having the Nordiques back wears off, would they stay or leave for a 2nd time? I grew up in the 90's in Canada when the economy was struggling. There was a real strong possibility that many canadians had fears that it wouldn't take much and there would only be the Habs and the Leafs left. Quebec left, Winnipeg left. Edmonton was long rumored to move to Houston. Ottawa, Calgary and Vancouver weren't far behind. That's the reality.
It sounds like to me that the only reasons Winnipeg got the Jets back (in a way) was because there was an owner who happened to be standing by and Gary wanted to throw Canada a bone to get us to shut the hell up. He'd been basically pissing in our ears and telling us it's raining to keep owners in the southern US (big markets where it never snows) happy for 30 years. I don't blame him for everything, because he's just doing what most of the owners want. The problem is that his business model of putting franchises in markets based purely on size rather than viability hasn't worked. California teams work because of Gretzky. Vegas works because they came in at the right time and a grieving market rallied behind their new team and discovered that hockey is pretty fun when you have a winner to cheer for. Dallas has been to the finals 3 times since they got there and won once, so that helps. There are logical places in the US to put a hockey team, but they're not going to go to those places because they're not gigantic markets. So they'd rather go to Arizona and Florida and places like that. They'll probably go to Houston before they ever go back to Quebec because of the sheer size of that market and the corporate backing. But that corporate backing won't be there for very long if the returns are trash. If they were running the league based on logic, they would have given up on Arizona years ago. Okay fine, don't want to move to Canada? How about North Dakota? Sure, maybe it's not a huge market, but I'm pretty sure you could convince people to buy tickets for a professional hockey team. Hartford had a team there for years, and it was basically ownership and a crappy building that forced them to leave. There. Solved.
im still mad about that ** ramparts game trust me I will be mad at them tell they day I died cuz they beat Seattle so mad main sad really just sad not mad ok im sad
Montreal is Quebec like Vancouver is BC or Barcelona is Spain…not really very much. True patriots have nothing to do with the megalopolis(es), look at any electoral map and see the urban-rural divide. I would instantly become a QN fan (shifting from TO…only because of Clarke/Gilmore/Potvin/Andreychuk in the early 90s).
I''ve been relatively homeless since Dubas turned TMLs into a soft, overpaid NYRs and Trudeau embarrassed Canada with lockdown measure which saw TMLs play NYRs in NY with a full stadium, but two days later in TO play with empty bleachers. Such an embarrassment.
Love your YouTube page. Cool NHL talk
Need Quebec back so your old man can get back on the ice
I'm a Yank and would love to see a franchise back in Quebec–their uniforms were among the best. Get out of AZ–it reminds me of the NHL forcing a franchise in Atlanta.
Honestly as an Albertan its nice to see quebec not get what they want for once.
I got into hockey not because the North Stars moved to Dallas but because they were successful (also the invention of rollerblades probably helped), point is it’s the management that needs to go in Arizona not the team
WE WANT QUEBEC
The problem is that the majority of Quebec city fans are still consuming NHL products, yes those who swapped teams are spending more individually, but all that merch of the Nordiques you mentionned still being sold is part of the problem too, guess who still owns the rights of the Nordiques to this day ?
The NHL / Avalanche
Why would they consider Quebec City equally to other cities, they already consume massively the NHL products including the products of a team that dont exist anymore, a new city with 1/2 the fans is equally worth it, Quebec fans would still spend that money regardless every year. They will also occasionally travel to empty arena to fill em up because they think it trolls the NHL, they are trolling themselves.
You want a team in Quebec city, boycott all NHL products, the NHL only cares about money.
born in QC city, want them back too, would be to cool to cheer for them from Toronto!
Montrealer here, Senators fan 😛 but I know what you mean
Why would bring them back when you make so much free money from their liscencing still.
Better than any other option
Perhaps the government of Canada and/or the provinces should try to offer up tax breaks and/or credits to attract the team, and players for that matter. The Canadian government is so obsessed with preserving Canadian cultural identity but can’t help out on the financial front for basically the national sport? Sad.
American capitalism is the problem