Nordique Nation, the NHL's Teaparty Movement


A funny thing happened on the way to the Nassau Colieseum on Saturday night. Over one thousand fans of a team that no longer exists showed up for the game. These band of rebel rousers were taking a grassroots approach to securing an NHL franchise for their city. One could ask why they choose Long Island as the launch of their cross continent campaign? The Islander's play in a grossly outdated building and two amateur hockey teams, the London Knights and Quebec City's own Ramprants both outdraw them. Which would lead one to believe that is crew was set on poaching the Islander's from their forty year home. Well that was not the case as many of these die hards told the Islander fans that they had no interest in their team and simply were looking for other NHL team's fans, particularly American teams to support their cause.
All I can say it won't be easy. It is safe to say that the newest NHL city will be in Canada. With the Canadian dollar at par with the American dollar and all six Canadian teams selling out every night, the NHL has no choice but to have a team move or expand to Canada. Winnipeg has gone as far to take the "Field of Dreams" approach and have already built an NHL ready facility. Clearly though the Southern Ontario market is where the league has set its eyes on. Even the powerful Detroit Redwing franchise has endorsed a new team in Southern Ontario going as far as insisting that they play in their division, hence lowering their travel costs.
The old Nordiques were truly a sad story. Part of the WHA-NHL merger in 1979, they were closest thing the NHL had to the Green Bay Packers. Nords fans would fill Le Colissee to the rafters despite spending most of the late 80's and early nineties in the cellar of the Adams Division. The beginning of the end happened when first round draft pick and next superstar, Eric Lindros refused to report to the club. With a low Canadian dollar and a new threat of Quebec Separatism in the air, the Nordiques were doomed no mater how many people went through the turnstiles. To make matters worse their incarnation in Denver Colorado would win the Stanely Cup in their first year. A second one would follow in 2001. All of these factors alone should make Quebec City the "People's Choice" for the newest NHL city.
Clearly one set of hockey fans have decided that enough is enough and they are taking it to the streets. Half empty arenas in the Southern United States could be the next target of the NHL's Teaparty movement. No longer will Canadian hockey fans tolerate Stanley Cup parades in shopping mall parking lots, hokey on ice promotions and consistently seeing their heroes sign with clubs simply so they can play golf in the afternoon. Will this movement go as far as dumping the original architect of this fiasco, Garry Bettemen. The same man who never saw a hockey game until he was forty years old has been at the forefront of two labour stoppages and no network television deal in the US. Perhaps during their time in New York they could storm his plush office and take over the league and see that true hockey fans have the right to see the best of the best play, not just the corporate suits currently occupying most of the Canadian NHL arenas.

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