Comments on: One Quebec columnist eyeballs two potential teams to fill new Quebec City arena

By: jason

jason — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 15:41:23 +0000

As I remember correctly, Those Canandian teams left for a reason!, Sure the attendance in Phoenix, and Miami, or even Atlanta may be low, but remember the Los Angelos Rams, or the L.A. Raiders? they both moved out of the 2nd biggest T.V. market for the NFL. Why did they move, because of the different markets. L.A. still after 10 years does not have a NFL fooball team. So Quebec, Winnepeg, yeah I do feel the house would sell out, but the market is wrong, it’s all buisness, its not a game anymore, and that goes for all sports. They unfortunatley will have to wait, I do feel they will get an NHL team in time. I do feel the Panthers may move up to Canada, and I also feel the Jacksonville Jaguars may move to L.A. as well. but at the end of the day, thats all rumors, well keep on with the wishfull thinking….also remember the economy that we are feeling too..

By: christian audet

christian audet — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:44:10 +0000

Jay,
Quebec Nordiques were dead last in the NHL from 1989 to 1993, and the building was sold at 96%. Building is sold out for pre season game between two foreign teams, sold out for junior games, sold out for world championship games, even when involving boring europeans teams…Quebec is a hockey town. Nothing to compare with Atlanta or Miami where football is king.
Inactive Quebec Nordiques have a fanclub counting more that 60 000 members for now, called Nordiques nation…How many members in the Trahsres fanclub? About 213? How many in the Florida Panthers fanclub? Is there a fanclub anyway?
NHL has nothing to do in the southern states. It will soon be back to where peoples love the game.

By: Jay

Jay — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 23:11:37 +0000

The NHL is not going to leave a major US city like Atlanta. Not this time anyways. The Thrashers have diehard fans like every team. It’s getting the casual fan in the door that only winning can bring. Atlanta used to draw well in it’s early years, but after one playoff appearance in ten years, interest has waned. If the same situation happened in Quebec(or anywhere other than apparently Toronto), the fans there most likely wouldn’t sell out the building, either. Would relocation talk start for them? It was just a few short seasons ago that the Blackhawks had less than 8,000 for home games. Let’s give this relocation talk a break.

By: The Emperor

The Emperor — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:41:10 +0000

F*** the Nordiques! Bring back the Whalers!

By: gennygee3

gennygee3 — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:59:22 +0000

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By: Donny Rivette

Donny Rivette — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:45:01 +0000

Dude’s just stoking the emotions of his audience to drive up hits. Doesn’t even provide an argument as to why either Atlanta or – even less likely – Florida would relocate. Have we not traveled this tired road a hundred times in the past several years?