- Selon la Gazette....
- Les Nordiques de Québec...ne reviendront JAMAIS...
- Et les Coyotes déménageront...à Houston...
In hockey terms, of course, the destination ought to be Quebec City and the Videotron Centre — a state-of-the-art 18,259-seat venue that would become one of the poles in a perfect storm of hockey rivalries, along with Toronto, Ottawa, Boston and Montreal. No other nexus of teams could approach it for intensity, nor is this Quebec the one that lost the Nordiques in 1995. It’s bigger, it’s bustling, it’s almost as large as Winnipeg, and it has a significantly larger arena.
Unfortunately for the game, the NHL is now an American league. Whether NHL owners can stomach former Parti Québécois leader Pierre-Karl Péladeau is probably irrelevant. Péladeau may be erratic, but the NHL has far worse, beginning with Eugene Melnyk in Ottawa. What matters is that Bettman likes teams in hot places and if he’s going to give way at last and agree to move the Coyotes franchise from Arizona, the searing heat and humidity of Houston will do just fine.