Posts About "Quebec Nordiques"
Old School NHL Jerseys - Gone But Not Forgotten
April 13th, 2020 Over the last decade-plus, NHL teams have been getting creative when redesigning their logos or creating their third alternate jerseys. New sleek designs have been on the rise lately, which beckons the question of what will happen to older jerseys as the years pass by. Teams such as the Minnesota North Stars, Hartford Whalers,...
The 1979 NHL – WHA Merger
March 30th, 2020 The 2009-10 hockey season marks the 30th anniversary of the merger between the National Hockey League and the World Hockey Association. It was the last time that such a unification has taken place in a major North American sport...
Quebec Nordiques - A History of Beer, Brawls, and Van Halen
March 4th, 2020 The Quebec Nordiques almost didn't exist. And depending on who you ask, maybe they shouldn't have existed at all. In fact, their story begins on the other side of the continent, under the considerably warmer skies of San Francisco, California. The Nordiques (roughly translated as the "Northerners" or "Northmen") were...
Eric Lindros Trade Revisited
January 4th, 2020 Two teams made deals for him, but only one could end up with "The Next One". It's been over 26 years since the Quebec Nordiques traded Eric Lindros — a once-in-a-generation player with outstanding offensive prowess, a bone-crunching physical presence, strong skating skills, and stupendously soft hands — to the Philadelphia...
Eric Lindros: A Player Who Changed Hockey Both On and Off The Ice
September 29th, 2017 This article was originally published in November, 2012. Say what you will about Eric Lindros, but the former Flyers captain changed hockey both with his on-ice presence as well as his off-ice headlines. On Wednesday, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported that the 39-year-old native from London, Ontario will be inducted into the...
Oilers Can Learn Hard Lesson From Nordiques History
March 26th, 2016 There is a lot that can be said about the last six years in Edmonton for fans of the Oilers. The big thing is that this whole rebuild has gone completely off the rails with Peter Chiarelli and Todd McLellan coming in with a fresh outlook trying to get this back on track. There aren't very many players that are safe, including former...
The Best Old School NHL Snapbacks
November 29th, 2015 Over the last several years, snapback hats have found their way back onto the shelves of various sporting goods and hat stores. Subsequently winding up on the heads of various consumers willing to shell out anywhere from 20 to 35 dollars for the aforementioned apparel, all types of newly designed and colored snapbacks have been purchased...
Eric Lindros Should be in the Hall of Fame
July 6th, 2015 Last week, the Hockey Hall of Fame announced their inductees for 2015, including Chris Pronger, Niklas Lidstrom, Sergei Federov, and Phil Housley from the player side. Although all these players are deserving, there is once again one very big, absence. For the sixth straight year of eligibility, Eric Lindros was left off the list....
Quebec City Making Poor Case For NHL Return
May 29th, 2015 There is no way to sugarcoat this — Quebec City does not deserve an NHL team. Not after its lack of support for the ongoing Memorial Cup. A sparse, make that shameful crowd of 6,533 showed up to watch the host Quebec Remparts battle their arch-rival Rimouski Oceanic in a tiebreaker elimination game on Thursday. That should...
Top 5 Defunct NHL Jerseys
April 15th, 2015 The NHL has long been recognized as the league, among the "big four", with the best looking jerseys. From the Chicago Blackhawks to the New York Rangers, the NHL's list of great sweaters just goes on and on. But while everyone talks about the best looking jerseys of the current teams in the league, many forget about the threads of...
Owen Nolan Trade for Sandis Ozolinsh
March 10th, 2015 The Background: Quebec/Colorado Gather round children, it's story time. Once upon a time there was a mediocre hockey team in Canada called the Quebec Nordiques. They were so mediocre that Eric Lindros didn't want to play for them after being selected by the team in 1991. But even though the supposed "Next One" did not wish to play...
4 Concept Jerseys for NHL Expansion Teams
January 22nd, 2015 The All-Star Game is upon us and hockey fans everywhere are going to watch the NHL’s best players put on atrocious uniforms to play a glorified game of shinny. Meanwhile, I’m here to cleanse the palette a bit. Deep in the online jersey concept forum of www.sportslogos.net lies a member by the name of sparky chewbarky. No one knows...
NHL Expansion Roundtable: Quebec City
September 30th, 2014 Expansion was the talk of the summer when news broke that the NHL was planning to move into four cities. For every reason you can possibly think of, this gripped sports fans across North America. This tweet from Howard Bloom of the Sports Business News sent the Sports-verse aflame in late August: NHL expansion – four teams added by...
