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Old Posted Oct 10, 2009, 4:32 PM
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The NHL is coming closer to Quebec City

The NHL is coming closer to Quebec City

http://www.montrealgazette.com/Forme...732/story.html

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Former Nordiques owner, mayor meet NHL Commish

The GazetteOctober 10, 2009 12:14 PM

Quebec City’s mayor and the former owner of the Quebec Nordiques met with NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman Friday in New York City, the French-language television network LCN has reported.

According to the report, Mayor Régis Labeaume and Marcel Aubut discussed the possibility of Quebec City getting a new NHL team.

The meeting took place as rumours are swirling about a new arena to be built to replace the old Colisée, where the Quebec Nordiques played from the time they were established in the World Hockey Association in 1972 until the franchise was sold and moved to Colorado in 1995. At the time, Aubut wanted the provincial government to chip in the funds needed to build a new arena.

Bettman has said that building a new arena would be a key to establishing a new franchise in Quebec City.

LCN reported an announcement either about the arena or a new NHL franchise could come next week.
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Murphy's Law: Quebec City Deserves the NHL

http://www.nesn.com/2009/09/murphys-...s-the-nhl.html
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Old Posted Oct 10, 2009, 4:44 PM
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Quebec City never should have lost their franchise in the first place. Bring it back, mon dieu!
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Old Posted Oct 10, 2009, 5:02 PM
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Hell yeah. Bring back the Nordiques. Bring back the Jets while they're at it too.
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Old Posted Oct 10, 2009, 5:19 PM
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The nordiques-Habs rivalry was bigger than the To-Mtl one, it was much more bitter and vindictive than any battle of alberta or ontario and put the boston-mtl rivalry to shame....that being said BRING BACK LES CRISS DES NORDIQUES...esti
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Old Posted Oct 10, 2009, 5:52 PM
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Bring them back!!! Habs-Nordiques rivalry was something...

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The Good Friday Massacre, known in French as la bataille du Vendredi saint, was a second-round playoff match-up during the 1984 NHL Playoffs. The game occurred on April 20, 1984 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, between the Quebec Nordiques and the Montreal Canadiens. After a number of ordinary hockey fights, a bench-clearing melee broke out at the end of the second period, which referee Bruce Hood ended prematurely due to the brawl. A second brawl broke out during the teams' warmups prior to the third period, including players who had already been ejected from the game but had not been notified prior to their return to the ice.

A total of 252 penalty minutes and 10 game misconducts were handed out. The altercations included the Canadiens' Mario Tremblay smashing the nose of the Nordiques' Peter Stastny, and Louis Sleigher knocking Jean Hamel unconscious by hitting him in the eye, causing damage that contributed to the end of his career. This game prompted Hood to retire from the NHL once the playoffs ended.
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Old Posted Oct 10, 2009, 6:18 PM
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I wonder why it didn't work with the Citadelles in Q.C... A city this size with only a junior team is a little pathetic!
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bringing back the nords and jets would be so friggen awesome

then only Hartford is needed and the nhl is awesome again
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then only Hartford is needed and the nhl is awesome again
Hartford is too saturated of a market to support an NHL team. They're good with the AHL Wolf Pack.

The Nords would be awesome, but....
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I wonder if this would involve moving a U.S. team, or an expansion.
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I hope there's never any more expansions, 30 teams is fine.
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I hope there's never any more expansions, 30 teams is fine.
The have to expand. It's where the execs make their money -through expansion fees.
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Old Posted Oct 10, 2009, 8:39 PM
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A little bit more .............

http://www.thehockeynews.com/article...es-to-NHL.html

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Quebec City mayor speaks with Gary Bettman about return of Nordiques to NHL

QUEBEC CITY, Que. - The return of the Quebec Nordiques to the NHL may be one step closer to reality.

Quebec City mayor Regis Labeaume confirmed Saturday that he met with NHL commissioner Gary Bettman along with former Nordiques owner Marcel Aubut.

The talk took place in New York on Friday.

Labeaume refused to offer up more details but told media to expect more information in the coming days.

The mayor said the meeting went well and that he and Aubut were greeted warmly by Bettman.

Several Quebec City media outlets are also reporting that a new arena for the city will be announced next week.

Bettman said earlier this month he would consider Quebec City as a possible home to an NHL team if it went through with plans to build a cutting-edge arena and if a team were up for sale.

The Nordiques were sold in 1995 and moved to Denver as the Colorado Avalanche.
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It would be great to get an NHL team back in Quebec City.

Throw another one back in Winnipeg and one in Hamilton, and I think Canadians (ie. real hockey fans) would be satisfied their country is properly represented.
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Bring them back !!



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Those jerseys are freaking awesome.
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It would be great to see the fucking Nords back! The only Habs/Nords game I ever caught was on a double game dream visit to Montréal back in 1987, Habs/Nords on Thursday, Habs/Leafs on Saturday. When I arrived, EVERYBODY was talking about the game; old ladies, kids.. there were 20 page pull-out sections devoted to the game in every paper and you could feel the mutual hatred in the Forum. The Nords brought up a goon named Richard Zemlak specifically to fight John Kordic and Kordic destroyed him!

The Habs won 5-2 and then beat the Leafs 2-1 on Saturday. My 3 leaf fan buddies who came with me from Toronto had to pay for my entire weekend: hotel, drinks, food.. great time!
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Old Posted Oct 11, 2009, 12:31 PM
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Closer and closer....


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Quebecor boss eyes NHL team for Quebec City

By Marc-André Séguin, QMI Agency




Quebecor's President and CEO, Pierre Karl Peladeau has expressed interest in an NHL team for Quebec City. (Craig Robertson, Sun Media)

QUEBEC CITY — Quebecor boss Pierre Karl Peladeau has been keeping an eye out for an NHL franchise to buy and re-locate to Quebec City. According to Peladeau, the “winning conditions” needed to be successful in such an endeavour are “more and more numerous”.

After the meeting between Quebec City Mayor Régis Labeaume, former Nordiques owner Marcel Aubut and NHL commissioner Gary Bettman was made public, Peladeau is fuelling the rumours that a NHL hockey club could make a return to the city.

Peladeau said yesterday that he was keeping up on what teams could become for sale “if we decide to re-locate teams to Canada”, adding that he was very aware of the financial difficulties facing some American hockey clubs.

The word that Peladeau could become involved in the push for another Canadian franchise comes just as observers are becoming more and more optimistic that Quebec could be next in line for a pro hockey team.

While Peladeau said it will take the involvement of more people to make something this big happen, he said his team was working hard to figure out the “winning recipe”.


And while he acknowledged that a new hockey club arriving in Quebec City isn’t “for tomorrow, or for next week”, the businessman seems nonetheless confident that it could happen.

Peladeau confirmed that he has also “frequently” met with Labeaume, with whom he has discussed the idea of bringing hockey back to the city.

According to several sources, Peladeau is actively searching for partners in the city to bring the plan to fruition.

Peladeau, meanwhile, said he “wasn’t specifically” looking for partners but that he had been talking with business people in the area.

“But it’s undeniable that forming a group to explore bringing a club to Quebec is desirable,” he said.

Peladeau also said he was pleased to see a positive relationship between Labeaume and Bettman, adding that the way they were going about the situation was “appropriate”.

“You have to respect the NHL institution,” Peladeau said. “We saw what happened with Jim Balsillie.”

That comment was in reference to the Blackberry creator and billionaire who tried unsuccessfully to purchase the Phoenix Coyotes and move them to Hamilton.

Though he is excited about the possibility of bringing hockey back to Quebec City, Peladeau said he is very aware of the work that needs to be done to make it happen.

“We’re missing a team and an amphitheatre,” he said. “And that is the chicken and the egg problem. Is it the amphitheatre that brings the team or vice versa? But I have to add that the timing is getting better and better.”
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Sunday’s News of Hockey, 10/11/09: Phoenix in Trouble, Quebec on the Rise

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The sellout crowd at Jobing.com Arena for Phoenix’s home opener — where ticket prices were reduced to just $25 or $15 to draw fans — is kept quiet in Saturday night’s 2-0 loss to Columbus. Among the spectators watching the financially troubled Coyotes: Daryl Jones, chief operating officer of Ice Edge Holdings, a group that dropped its bid for the team at the bankruptcy court-imposed deadline last summer. Jones says that Ice Edge is still interested in buying the club. Under its initial $150 million bid, it would have kept the team in Glendale, Ariz., while moving some games to Saskatoon.

Meanwhile, Quebec City mayor Régis Labeaume confirms that he and former Nordiques owner Marcel Aubut met with N.H.L. commissioner Gary Bettman about the possibility of re-establishing a team in la capitale. Deputy commissioner Bill Daly later says the chances of placing teams in Quebec and Winnipeg have “real potential.” The news comes amid reports of an impending announcement that a new, N.H.L.-standard rink will be built to replace Le Colisée, the Nordiques’ home from their founding in the W.H.A. in 1972 until they left for Denver in 1995, where the next season they won the Stanley Cup as the Colorado Avalanche.
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"We do have an interest in returning teams to Canadian cities that have hosted and supported NHL teams historically," deputy commissioner Bill Daly told the Toronto Star in an email.

"Both Winnipeg and Quebec City have done that, so we'll see how things transpire. That doesn't mean southern Ontario won't or can't be considered. It will be."

Daly made his comments after Regis Lebaume, mayor of Quebec City, told reporters that he and former Quebec Nordiques owner Marcel Aubut met Friday with NHL commissioner Gary Bettman.

Lebaume said more news would come this week, most likely a promise of funding from the city for a $250 million, 18,000-seat, NHL-sized arena that could be part of a bid for the 2018 Winter Olympics.
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great news habs nords was best rivalry in hockey history and maybe they can get a cfl team in quebec city also imagine them vs. the als it would be superb and i have a feeling my jets will be back in peg city here soon too. With a strong dollar a much healthier canadian economy than down south and real hockey fans hockey will be fun again it's 1988 baby!
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"We do have an interest in returning teams to Canadian cities that have hosted and supported NHL teams historically," deputy commissioner Bill Daly told the Toronto Star in an email.

"Both Winnipeg and Quebec City have done that, so we'll see how things transpire. That doesn't mean southern Ontario won't or can't be considered. It will be."
Hey, historically speaking Hamilton had an NHL team as well. We better not be left standing with our dicks in our hands for some more decades.
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