How can Minnesota, the State of Hockey, lose a professional hockey team? This documentary pieces together what prompted the Minnesota North Stars to relocate to Texas in 1993 through interviews with former players, team employees and fans.
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Growing up as a kid, I went to a lot of Kalamazoo Wings games and found out about the history they had with them being the North Stars' farm team in the IHL. Plus being from Michigan watching and hearing about Mike Madano.
I was born in 04 and grew up during the Wild, but somehow loved the "N" logo and would always put it on my custom team in NHL 10-13.
Now that I'm older, learning about the history behind teams that aren't around like the Seals, Barrons, Scouts, Nordiques, Whalers, and the North Stars. This one like Quebec and Hartford, just leaves a sad feeling in my heart. Something about the Wild bringing back the colors and jerseys from that era I think made Minnesotans have some closure to that rough patch in history at the end.
Hopefully the Wild can win the Cup sooner or later for you guys! ❤
Man I understand the pain! I’m still a coyotes fan knowing we don’t have a team here in Arizona.
we loathe norm greens blood
Boy I wish we still could at least be called the North Stars. The Wild is absolutely ridiculous and the color scheme of the north stars can’t be beat.
Louie is right, the Stars leaving can only partially be blamed on Green. The Target Center wasn’t viable for the team to generate enough revenue.
Me and a buddy went to a north stars game against the oilers at the met in the early mid 80s, and saw gretzky shoot a Puck right thru the net that hardly anyone in the met even saw. He made everyone turn their head (still don't know how he did it) then ripped a wrister right thru the net. Everyone stopped and looked confused, but the game went on and he didn't get the goal.
DEEENO! dude was cool. I was his paperboy in the early 80s.
Excellent documentary. I'm a huge hockey fan and the Minnesota high school hockey is way better than professional hockey.
There's no such thing as a "Dallas Stars" fan… They're a bunch of cowboys fans who are bored in the off-season. They don't know the players, the rules, what year the franchise was "founded / stolen" or anything else hockey related… Hockey belongs in Minnesota, not Texas.
Norm Green looks like a child 'botherer' if you know what I mean… Dude was sketchy as F&%^ and that's coming from an Albertan
I'm a Penguins fan whose owner between February 1977 and the fall of 1991 was Edward J. DeBartolo Sr., who like Green, made his fortune with shopping malls. The DeBartolo Corporation is headquartered in Boardman, Ohio south of Youngstown, which is about a half hour drive from my house in Mercer County, Pennsylvania. It's just down the road from one of DeBartolo's malls, Southern Park Mall.
Not forgotten in any way shape or form.
Norm Green commercial, " We've made some changes, we've moved to Texas"
I felt bad for our players being uprooted. The destruction of Met Center was big. This story is missing the Norm Green angle.
As a native born Texas who loved any scrap of hockey we could get during the 80s and 90s I say its easy to be a fan when they win but poor attendance during the loosing years need to be supported. Minnesota says they loved the Stars but had the lowest attendance in the league. Easy to point a finger and while many or even every person in the documentary was probably a die hard fan, the majority of Minnesota were not. To the die hards I salute you. My father still refuses to acknowledge the Titans and refuses to watch a Cowboys game that they don't play the Texans. It's hard on a family who has traditions and a passion for something to loose it. Hopefully you can enjoy and support the Wild. The Stars are in good hands because Texas was not a hockey state, but it is now and its because the greatest hockey team came here and made fans of us. Let's go Stars!
When I was a little guy I heard there was a hockey team in my area but they moved. The Seals became the Barons and merged with the North Stars, but that was a million miles from Oakland and a distant memory.
I lived in Dallas from 90-98. San Jose got the Sharks but I never could get behind them. Then the team I wished I could have seen team moved to where I was. Ever since, I’ve been a Stars fan even though I moved back to Oakland.
Ironically, my work is about to take me to Minnesota. I’m not sure what kind of reception I’ll get as a Stars fan, but I replaced the Dallas Stars sticker on my car with an old school Minnesota North Stars one. Not as a pretender just as a matter of respect.
Being from Oakland I am aware of what it feels like when a team leaves (or in Oakland’s case ALL the teams leave.)
Minnesota doesn't deserve hockey.
Look at all the newspaper articles that came out in 1993 and 1994 playing the blame game
How long until the Wild threatens to leave minnesota?
Difficult to watch . All it is is snippets
Norm Green and especially his wife at the time suck. It was mostly her fault.