re minnesota shame in article c xpu md constellation ecn uoknor edu hunter nsslsun nssl uoknor edu steve hunter writes i m a hockey fan from way back and maintain an interest as best i can here in the hockey hinterlands oklahoma i m hoping i can get a reading from some of you about the move of the north stars to dallas i ve been under the impression that minnesota was one of or possibly the hockey state in the u s so why is the team moving to a city in texas is it that the owner is a greedy self serving profiteer or were the stars really not making a profit or was the city or whoever owned the arena doing some price gouging opinions please well as a hockey fan i think it s terrible it s one thing to say hey let s give a hockey team to cities that don t have one that s fine it s entirely another to say okay let s take a team from a thriving hockey town and move it of course none of us will ever know the real inside story but from what i know a group of minneapolis businessmen told green repeatedly that they would purchase the remaining season tickets to get to the level that green wanted yet he refused every time it s pretty obvious that he was determined to get out of minneapolis at any cost and use the season tickets thing as an excuse i was fortunate enough to get to the penultimate game and the fans were great people were tailgating and playing roller hockey in the parking lot before the game the attendance was so full as to have sro and the whole atmosphere in the centre was terrific minnesota is hockey usa how the nhl can so blithely let the major league team from there move away is beyond me i only hope they get a new team soon just my ali ali procrastination lemer i gave nhl commissioner gary bettman a puck columbia university nyc once he spent the rest of the day trying to phoenix ctr columbia edu open it pat williams gm orlando magic be kind to animals hug a hockey player
