Quebec Fans Take Quest for a Team to Long Island (NY Times)
From The New York Times:
“This is not a demonstration,” said Vincent Cauchon, a radio sports show host and a founder of Nordiques Nation, the fan group that is organizing the trip. “We just want to show the N.H.L. that Quebec needs a team and is a better market; maybe a third of the markets in the N.H.L. aren’t doing so well right now.”
The Quebec fans, many of whom clad in the sweaters of the Nordiques, will took the 550-mile trip in 22 buses. They crossed the border at Champlain, N.Y., the organizers having sent each passenger’s passport number ahead to speed the crossing through United States Customs.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/10/sports/hockey/10islanders.html?scp=1&sq=nordiques%20nation&st=cse
An estimated 1,100 fans of the old Nordiques came here from Quebec City for Saturday night’s game between the Islanders and the Atlanta Thrashers, about 10 percent of the announced crowd of 10,056. The Thrashers won, 5-4.
With five minutes to play in the game, all the Quebec fans walked down to the lower bowl behind the Atlanta net and stood and cheered and waved provincial flags through the rest of regulation in an impressive display of passion.
http://slapshot.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/11/at-last-a-bit-of-passion-at-nassau-coliseum/?scp=2&sq=nordiques%20nation&st=cse
“This is not a demonstration,” said Vincent Cauchon, a radio sports show host and a founder of Nordiques Nation, the fan group that is organizing the trip. “We just want to show the N.H.L. that Quebec needs a team and is a better market; maybe a third of the markets in the N.H.L. aren’t doing so well right now.”
The Quebec fans, many of whom clad in the sweaters of the Nordiques, will took the 550-mile trip in 22 buses. They crossed the border at Champlain, N.Y., the organizers having sent each passenger’s passport number ahead to speed the crossing through United States Customs.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/10/sports/hockey/10islanders.html?scp=1&sq=nordiques%20nation&st=cse
An estimated 1,100 fans of the old Nordiques came here from Quebec City for Saturday night’s game between the Islanders and the Atlanta Thrashers, about 10 percent of the announced crowd of 10,056. The Thrashers won, 5-4.
With five minutes to play in the game, all the Quebec fans walked down to the lower bowl behind the Atlanta net and stood and cheered and waved provincial flags through the rest of regulation in an impressive display of passion.
http://slapshot.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/11/at-last-a-bit-of-passion-at-nassau-coliseum/?scp=2&sq=nordiques%20nation&st=cse
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