[troutman]

Originally Posted by Jets4Life

St.Paul was always more of a hockey city than Minneapolis. That's why the Wild succeeded and the North Stars failed.

The Stars played in suburban Bloomington. That was one of the problems. Owner Green was another.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vau...54/1/index.htm

The idea that this guy, that anyone, for that matter, could move major league hockey from Minnesota, the American home of hockey, is hard to believe. How could that happen? How could anyone let that happen? This is the state that fills a 16,000-seat arena for the state high school tournament, the state that every four years fills out the roster of the U.S. Olympic team, the state that is the land of lakes, for goodness' sake, all of them frozen during the long winter, all with kids learning to skate. Dallas? A team from Minnesota would move, after 26 years of residence, to Dallas?