Might the NHL Return to Quebec City ? (CanWest News Service)
From The CanWest News Service:
By Marianne White, Canwest News Service
Quebec City Mayor Regis Labeaume on Friday announced plans to build a $400-million NHL-sized arena in the hope of bringing back a professional hockey team to the city that was home to the Nordiques until 1995.
The mayor laid out plans to build the modern 18,000-seat arena, which will be used as a concert venue and a hockey arena.
Rumours that an NHL hockey club could make a return to the city have been fuelled in the past week with the news Labeaume and former Nordiques owner Marcel Aubut met with NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman.
The Nordiques moved to Denver in 1995, became the Colorado Avalanche and won the Stanley Cup the following season.
"I'd love to play here," Ryan O'Byrne told the Montreal Gazette after the Canadiens dropped a 2-1 pre-season game to the Boston Bruins Sunday night before a wildly enthusiastic crowd of 15,141 at Le Colisée. "This beats playing someplace in the (southern United States) where it looks like there's a hundred people in the stands."
http://www.montrealgazette.com/sports/Quebec+City+woos+with+arena/2110649/story.html
http://www.montrealgazette.com/sports/rebirth+Quebec/2018334/story.html
By Marianne White, Canwest News Service
Quebec City Mayor Regis Labeaume on Friday announced plans to build a $400-million NHL-sized arena in the hope of bringing back a professional hockey team to the city that was home to the Nordiques until 1995.
The mayor laid out plans to build the modern 18,000-seat arena, which will be used as a concert venue and a hockey arena.
Rumours that an NHL hockey club could make a return to the city have been fuelled in the past week with the news Labeaume and former Nordiques owner Marcel Aubut met with NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman.
The Nordiques moved to Denver in 1995, became the Colorado Avalanche and won the Stanley Cup the following season.
"I'd love to play here," Ryan O'Byrne told the Montreal Gazette after the Canadiens dropped a 2-1 pre-season game to the Boston Bruins Sunday night before a wildly enthusiastic crowd of 15,141 at Le Colisée. "This beats playing someplace in the (southern United States) where it looks like there's a hundred people in the stands."
http://www.montrealgazette.com/sports/Quebec+City+woos+with+arena/2110649/story.html
http://www.montrealgazette.com/sports/rebirth+Quebec/2018334/story.html
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