why did they have no NHL team before 2000. isnt minnesota canada jr? does'nt it have ice 9 monthes of the year? i bet hockey is more popular there than it is in vancouver or victoria BC....why so long then?
2007-02-25 08:09:23 · 13 answers · asked by Scotty R 1 in Sports ➔ Hockey
They didn't have to wait too long after Norm Green moved the North Stars not because of lack of fan support but he was humiliated by sexual harrasment accusations & because he wanted the land the Met Center was on for free! Dallas bent over backwards for him! As far as Wayne Gretzky having any hockey business sense, why do the Phoenix Coyotes stink so bad??
2007-02-26 14:36:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well you'd be wrong about hockey being more popular in Minnesota than in Vancouver or Victoria. By the way, Victoria doesn't have an NHL team, so why does that matter? You might as well mention Kamloops as they're as close to Vancouver as Victoria is. But the Canucks have something like 148 straight sold out games. How many has Minnesota had? And also, haven't you ever heard of the Minnesota North Stars???
2007-02-25 09:03:26 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Norm Green moved his team - The Northstars - from Minnesota because the fans did not financially support the team. The year after the Northstars were in the Stanley Cup final, the fans didn't even fill half the seats at the season opener. You can not put a competitive team on the ice without any money.
Moving the team to Dallas seemed strange at first but it was on Wayne Gretzky's recommendation that Dallas became an expansion city. I consider Wayne to have a lot of hockey smarts. We man not have grown up watching/playing hockey but we understand it now. And the Dallas fans support this team in all ways necessary.
We hope the Wild's fans do likewise with their new team.
2007-02-26 10:10:18 · answer #3 · answered by txkathidy 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Minnesota didn't really go very long without an NHL team. They had the North Stars for quite a while before the team was moved to Dallas, Texas.
2007-02-25 09:03:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think there is any place in the States where hockey is more popular than in Canada...you would have to see it to believe it...the North Stars were moved from Minnesota to Dallas, somethiing about expansion and more fans...if the tickets weren't so expensive across the league, they might have more fans in Minnesota though, because you are right, they do love their hockey!
2007-03-01 00:12:11 · answer #5 · answered by jgirl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They had the Minnesota North Stars from 1967-1993 but due to Norm Green & that weenie Gary Bettman, they moved them to Dallas of all places...just the first of stupid moves the NHL made to ruin the NHL as we knew it...thankfully we have the Wild now!! It's just too bad the NHL is a watered down semi major sport now thank to the NHL powers that be!!
2007-02-25 15:07:51 · answer #6 · answered by Damned fan 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The Minnesota North Stars wew in Minnesota until they became the Dallas Stars. The geniuses who marketing the NHL decided they would rather have have a team in a large market where nobody cares about hockey, than have a team where people actually watch hockey.
Apparently, bad marketing decisions happened before the Bettman era.
2007-02-25 08:41:37 · answer #7 · answered by JK Nation 4 · 5⤊ 2⤋
One of my hockey wishes is for the Wild to be able to get the North Stars name back. That and bring back The Whale!
2007-02-27 15:21:22 · answer #8 · answered by njcardfan 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That's what I was thinking myself. You figure hockey is much more popular than basketball over there. I can't imagine that games don't sell out. There's nothing else to do around there!
2007-02-28 08:14:33 · answer #9 · answered by RichMac82 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They had a hockey team before. it was called the minnesota northstars
2007-02-25 08:24:44 · answer #10 · answered by lg 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋