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ChadTower:

The NHL had a strike in 1992.  Not a whole season but it did happen.

ChadTower:
BTW, same thing applies to me with the Expos too.  All those hall of famers that came up in Montreal and left due to payroll issues.  The best record in baseball wiped out by a strike.  They kept cranking out the best players in baseball and losing them right as they hit their prime.  Now the team is gone too.  I had already given up on MLB before the Expos left but now I doubt I'll ever go back.  I paid a little bit of attention as the Sox won their two titles because everyone around me was so caught up in it but that might be all of the MLB I have seen in the last ten years.  Keep in mind I played 15 years as a kid and coached another ten plus.  This is the first year since I was a little kid that I won't be on the field as either a player or a coach.

Vigo:

--- Quote from: Malenko on May 13, 2011, 09:05:39 am ---
--- Quote from: Vigo on May 13, 2011, 01:09:36 am ---I became disenchanted with NHL ever since there was so much bitching about money that they cancelled a whole season. That and we lost our team here in Minnesota because the team owner was bitching about not having enough money (North Stars).

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So were you pissed in 1993 when they moved the team (mostly due to poor attendance and that pesky sexual harassment suit) or in 2004 when they had the lockout? Did you decide to be a real fan and cheer on the Dallas Stars?

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To elaborate, it was mostly the 93 move of the team that made me lose interest in Hockey, the 92 strike added quite a bit to my anger. In 2000, we got the MN Wild, and I didn't warm up at all to hockey until 2002/2003 when they started playing well.
Then the 2004 strike came and at that point I decided to completely throw in the towel on hockey for good. Haven't cared a lick since.

Even though in 2007 I literally moved two blocks from the arena where the Wild play, and even though have a friend who is a VIP coordinator for the wild games and can get me dirt cheap tickets anytime I want....I haven't cared enough to walk on over and see a game. That's how done with hockey I am.



--- Quote from: ChadTower on May 13, 2011, 09:03:36 am ---
--- Quote from: Vigo on May 13, 2011, 01:09:36 am ---I became disenchanted with NHL ever since there was so much bitching about money that they cancelled a whole season. That and we lost our team here in Minnesota because the team owner was bitching about not having enough money (North Stars).

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+1,000,000

Change it to the Nordiques and that is exactly my opinion.  Sad, too, because of how little Denver appreciated the championship we gave them, and how long I played and loved hockey as a kid.

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Wasn't the owner's excuse for taking the Nordiques to denver that he said he couldn't convince the Quebec government to pay his players salaries for him.  ::)

Oh, and nothing sucks more than your favorite team getting turned into/replaced by a team name that is a verb. Wild? Avalance? WTF?


--- Quote from: pinballjim on May 13, 2011, 09:49:13 am ---The awesome thing about the Dallas Stars was that they were setting attendance records and won the Stanley Cup.   ;D  I went to Minnesota that summer and it was just ---smurfette--- ---smurfette--- ---smurfette--- at me when they found out I was from Texas.

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:badmood:


ChadTower:

--- Quote from: Vigo on May 13, 2011, 10:07:02 am ---Wasn't the owner's excuse for taking the Nordiques to denver that he said he couldn't convince the Quebec government to pay his players salaries for him.  ::)

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Eric Lindros did a lot to their status in the NHL, too.  Threw it right in the toilet.  The trade to Philly actually worked out fantastically for Denver in the long run but at the time Lindros refused to play for the Nordiques it kicked the franchise straight in the nuts when it could east afford being kicked.

Karma got that guy, though.  His brother too. 

Malenko:
Lindros to Philly was/is the most lopsided trade ever. Denver got championships, Philly got concussions.

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