The Quebec Nordiques (in French: Nordiques de QuÃÆ' Â © bec , pronounced [n ?? dz? K] in Quebec French, in Canadian English; literally translated" Quebec City Northmen "or" Northerners ") is a hockey team es professional based in Quebec City, Quebec. The Nordiques played at the World Hockey Association (1972-1979) and the National Hockey League (1979-1995). The franchise was moved to Denver, Colorado in May 1995 and renamed Colorado Landslide.
Nordiques holds the distinction of being the only major professional sports team based in Quebec City in the modern era, and one of two ever; the other, Quebec Bulldogs, played a season in the NHL in 1919-20.
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The Quebec Nordiques was formed as one of the original World Hockey Association teams in 1972. The franchise was not one of the original eight teams established when the league was announced on November 1, 1971. The franchise was originally given to a group in San Francisco, as San Francisco Sharks. However, funding of the San Francisco group collapsed before the start of the first season, and the WHA, in haste, sold the organization to a group of six businessmen based in Quebec City. which has a very favorable Quebec Remparts junior team; Marcel BÃ © dard, LÃÆ' Â © o-Paul Beausoleil, Jean-Marc Bruneau, John Dacres, Marius Fortier, and Jean-Claude Mathieu.
They are named Nordiques because they are one of the northern teams in professional sports in North America. Quebec City is located at 46 degrees north latitude; Nordiques translated from French to English means Northern People or North People . The only WHA teams located further north are the Alberta Oilers (renamed Edmonton Oilers after one season), Calgary Cowboys, Vancouver Blazers and Winnipeg Jets.
Nordiques first head coach is Maurice legendary "Rocket" Richard but he survived two games, lost 2-0 to the Cleveland Crusaders, and a 6-0 victory against Alberta Oilers. "Rocket" decided training was not his skill and resigned.
The first Nordiques star is a two-way defenseman J. C. Tremblay, who leads the WHA in assists in the league's first season and will be named the All-Star league for the first four years in Quebec. The next season Serge Bernier and Rejean Houle join the Nordiques. In the 1974-75 season, they ended up making the playoffs with the help of highly acclaimed Marc Tardif; this year also saw the debut of Real Cloutier, which will be one of the WHA stars. They beat Phoenix Roadrunners and Minnesota Fighting Saints to reach the final, where they were swept in four games by Gordie Howe led by Houston Eros.
The following season saw the squad become a high-flying attack giant, being the only team in major professional history to have five players break 100 points (Tardif, Cloutier, Chris Bordeleau, Bernier and Houle), a sign that still stands in 2017 The season ends in disappointment as Nordiques lost to the Calgary Cowboys in the first round of the playoffs, having lost Marc Tardif due to injury following a controversial attack by Rick Jodzio of the Cowboys.
Despite Tardif's injuries and aging Tremblay, Nordiques finally won the Avco World Cup in 1976-77 as they defeated the New England Whalers and Indianapolis Racers in five games before beating the Winnipeg Jets in seven games, behind Bernier's 36 points in 17 playoffs. They represent Canada at the Izvestia Hockey Tournament in Moscow, ending with a 0-3-1 record.
In 1978, the WHA was in crisis, and Marcel Aubut, then team president under Carling-O'Keefe Brewery ownership, began checking on NHL's interest. The Nordiques can not defend their title and fall in the playoffs to the New England Whalers. The 1978-79 season will be the last for the WHA and for J. C. Tremblay, who retired at the end of the season and returns his # 3 jersey.
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1980s
As part of the merger of the NHL-WHA, WHA insists on including all surviving Canadian teams, including the Nordiques, among the teams brought to the NHL by the end of the 1978-79 season. As a result, Nordiques entered the NHL along with Whalers, Oilers and Jets.
Forced to let all but three players enter in the deployment draft, the Nordiques sink to the bottom of the standings. They finished the last 1979-1980 NHL season in their division despite a promising left-wing rookie game Michel Goulet. Initial spotlight for an otherwise bleak season when Real Cloutier became the second NHL player, following Alex Smart, who once scored a hat trick in his first NHL match.
In August 1980, Nordiques announced that they signed the newly deflected brothers Peter and Anton Stastny, members of the Czechoslovakia national team, because they designed Anton in the 1979 amateur draft. Their brother, Marian, would follow and also sign a contract with Quebec in the summer of 1981. The following season, led by Peter Stastny, 109-point winner of the Calder Memorial Trophy, Nordiques made the NHL playoffs for the first time, but fell in five best opening rounds in five games to the Philadelphia Flyers.
Led by Goulet and Peter Stastny, Nordiques made the playoffs seven years in a row. However, due to the playoff structure during most of the 1980s, Nordiques faced almost certainty of having to pass through the Montreal Canadiens or Boston Bruins to reach the final of the conference. In 1981-1982, despite only scoring 82 points in the regular season, they beat Canadiens and Bruins, both in a win-take-all game on the road. Their Cinderella trip ended when they were swept by defending champions New York Islanders in the final round of the conference.
Intradrovincial competition with Canadiens increased during the 1983-84 NHL season which culminated in the famous "Vendredi Saint" fights, otherwise known as the Great Friday Massacre, during the 1984 playoffs. The Habs scored five unanswered goals in the third period of Game 6 at the Montreal Forum to eliminate Nordiques. The goals all came after Peter Stastny and Dale Hunter were expelled in a fight.
In 1984-1985, Montreal and Quebec fought for the Adams Division championship. The Nordiques finished with 91 points, at the time of their highest point total as the NHL team. However, Habs won the division by three points - compressed by Canagens 7-1 thrashing of Nordiques at the Forum in the final week of the regular season. It's still enough, however, for Nordiques to collect home-ice gains for the first time as an NHL team. After being pushed into five games by Buffalo Sabers, they will take revenge on Habs in the Adams final by ousting them in seven games. Peter Stastny took the series with an overtime goal in the seventh game at the Forum. They then took on a strong Philadelphia Flyers, who have the best league record, up to six games.
They won their first NHL division title in 1985-86 (and it turned out, one of their two in Quebec, another in the 1994-95 season), but a defensive collapse in the playoffs allowed the Whalers of Hartford to sweep Nordiques in three games.
The following season saw more Nords-Habs rivalry during the playoff series lasting up to seven games, with Canadiens out as the winner. In the same season, when Quebec hosted Rendez-Vous '87, a change from the All-Star Game to include the Soviet national team, the costumed mascot, Badaboum - a blue feathered creature, poly-roly-poly - began entertaining fans at Colisà © with her strange dance routine. Badaboum was created only for Rendez-Vous, but it produced as follows that Nordiques made it a permanent fixture in the home game.
The decline starts the following season. The Nordiques finished last in their division - the first of five consecutive years finishing at the bottom of the Adams Division - and missed the playoffs for the first time in eight years. The decline continued in 1988-89, when they had the league's worst record.
Michel Bergeron, who coached the team from 1980 to 1987, returned for 1989-90. This season is also highlighted by the arrival of the Hall of Famer Guy Lafleur. "The Flower" managed 24 goals in 98 games with Quebec for two seasons. Season saw Nordiques reach the base; they complete 12-61-7 (31 points). It was the second of three straight seasons with the worst record in the league, and is still the worst record in Nordiques/Landslide history.
Michel Goulet and Peter Stastny traded in 1990, alternating with Chicago Blackhawks and New Jersey Devils. Regardless of the young star game, Joe Sakic, Nordiques fought throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s. However, in the 1989 NHL Draft Entry they drew up the Swedish prospect, Mats Sundin, making it the first Europeans to be voted first overall in the NHL draft. The following year Quebec opted first, taking on Owen Nolan.
1990s
Lindros draft and trade
In 1991, Nordiques once again had the first overall choice in the NHL Sign In Draft. They chose junior star Eric Lindros, though he has let it be known long before that he will never play for Quebec. Among the reasons, Lindros mentioned the distance, the lack of marketing potential, and had to speak French. After Nordiques chose it, Lindros later refused to wear a team jersey on Draft Day and just held him for a press photo. Lindros, on the advice of his mother, Bonnie, refused to sign a contract with the team and started a dispute lasting more than a year. President Nordiques publicly announced that they would make Lindros the center of their franchise turnaround, and refused to trade Lindros, saying that he would not have a career in the NHL as long as he survived. Some Nordiques want to move on without Lindros, as Joe Sakic says, "We just want players here who have a passion for playing, I'm tired of hearing that name He's not here and there are a lot of other people here." this dressing room is very concerned with the game. "Meanwhile, Nordiques finished with another terrifying season in 1991-92, losing a 70 point barrier for a fifth year in a row.
On 30 June 1992, after confusion over whether Quebec had traded Lindbs' rights to the Philadelphia Flyers or New York Rangers settled by an arbitrator, Nordiques sent Lindros to the Flyers in exchange for forward Peter Forsberg and Mike Ricci, goaltender Ron Hextall, Steve Duchesne's defensemen and Kerry Huffman, "future considerations" that eventually became enforcer Chris Simon, two first-round picks and US $ 15 million. One draft picks were used by Nordiques to choose goaltender Jocelyn Thibault, the others were traded twice and eventually used by Washington Capitals to vote for Nolan Baumgartner.
After the trade, Lindros said that his refusal to play for Nordiques had nothing to do with the language question, and more to do with what he saw as a "lack of winning spirit" in the Nordiques organization. However, in 2016, Lindros said that he did not want to play for the team owned Aubut.
The deal changed the Nordiques from the doormats league to a legitimate Stanley Cup contender almost overnight. Forsberg won the Calder Memorial Trophy in 1995, his first season with Nordiques, and will be one of the cornerstones of the Nordiques/Avalanche franchise for nearly a decade with his playmaking and physical play (despite being out with injury for a period of time like Lindros), winning the Cup Hart and Art Ross in 2003. Ricci will provide six seasons that are useful to the franchise before being traded. Hextall was transferred after a season to New York Islanders, and in return Nordiques acquired Mark Fitzpatrick (who would continue to be unprotected in the 1993 NHL Expansion Plan where he was claimed by the Florida Panthers) and the first round of selections, used by Nordiques to elect Adam Deadmarsh will be a key member of the team that won the Avalanche Cup. Thibault will be traded for Montreal goalkeeper Patrick Roy, after the franchise moved to Denver.
1992-1994
During the 1992-93 NHL season, these new players, together with Sakic - are now a bona fide NHL All-Star - and Sundin and Nolan are growing rapidly, leading Quebec to the largest single-season turnaround in NHL history. They jumped from 52 points in the previous season to 104 - in the process, going from the second worst league record to the fourth best, as well as noting the first season of 100 franchise points as the NHL team. They made the playoffs for the first time in six seasons, and also garnered home first-half home advantage for only the third time as the NHL team. However, they fell to Stanley Canadiens Cup champions in the first half, winning the first two games but then lost the next four as inspired by Patrick Roy from Montreal. Sakic and Sundin both scored over 100 points each, and head coach Pierre Page was a finalist for the Jack Adams Award.
The Nordiques missed the playoffs in 1993-94 as they struggled with injuries. After that season, Sundin traded to Toronto Maple Leafs in exchange for Wendel Clark. This trade is controversial for both teams, as Sundin is one of Nordiques' improved talents, while Clark is the Leafs captain and fan favorite. While Clark appears honorable, he then engages in contract disputes after the season ends and is sent to the New York Islanders.
Last season and move to Denver
For the 1994-95 season, Marc Crawford was hired as the new head coach, and Forsberg was considered ready to finally join the team, but first there was a locking problem. In a short season of 48 matches, Nordiques finished with a best record in the Eastern Conference. However, the team faltered in the postseason and was eliminated in the first round by defending champion Stanley Cup New York Rangers.
Losing playoff proved to be Nordiques' swan geese in the NHL as the team's financial troubles increasingly took center stage, even in the face of new fan support over the previous three years. Canadian league teams (with the exception of Toronto) found it difficult to compete in a new era of rising player salaries and a weakening Canadian dollar. While all NHL teams pay their players in US dollars, the Canadian team reports their earnings in Canadian dollars.
The Nordiques feel more trouble than any other Canadian league team. Quebec City is the smallest market in the NHL, and the second smallest market to host teams in four major sports. Only Green Bay, Wisconsin; home of the NFL Green Bay Packers, smaller. However, Nordiques did not have the nearest main market to attract support, just as the Packers did with Milwaukee. As a result, Nordiques "will always play second fiddle to Montreal Canadiens in Quebec province... [and] too far from Montreal to tap into their fan base". While Nordiques have a fairly loyal fan base, it's not enough for them to be viable in the economic environment of league change, which requires a larger media market. The Nordiques also face unique disadvantages because the status of Quebec City as the city of francophone is almost monolingual. Then as it is today, there are no privately owned English speaking radio stations, and only one private English-language TV station. The only English-language newspaper is the weekly Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph. The limited English-language media limit the Nordiques' selling power beyond Quebec City even in their best years, and make many non-French players wary of playing for them.
Aubut asks the province to subsidize the team through a casino scheme. However, Premier Jacques Parizeau rejected the request, as some in Quebec are willing to be seen as subsidizing hockey clubs that pay millions of dollars in salaries. In 1994, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that Peter Karmanos was in talks to buy Nordiques and move them to the US West Arena currently under construction in Phoenix, Arizona. Nordiques later denied that they would move and would seek to replace the aging Colisee.
Finally in May 1995, shortly after Nordiques was eliminated from the playoffs, Aubut announced that he had no choice but to accept an offer from COMSAT Entertainment Group, owner of the Nuggets National Basketball Association, Denver Nuggets. COMSAT moved the team to Denver where its name was replaced with Colorado Landslide. Although Nordiques and Aubut franchises never lose money, Aubut is afraid of losing money after a new NHL bargain agreement does not include a salary cap.
Maintaining their momentum from their successful last season as Nordiques, Avalanche won the Stanley Cup in their first season after the move, and added again in 2001. They will also win their division every year in their first eight years in Denver for a total of nine division titles respectively, the second largest in the era of expansion.
A year after Nordiques moved to Denver, the Winnipeg Jets followed him to the United States as Phoenix Coyote. The Jets, based in the second smallest NHL market, are in the same situation as Nordiques - solid fan support is offset by mounting financial difficulties. Subsequently, the NHL implemented the Canadian Assistance Plan , a revenue-sharing agreement that sees the league providing financial support to Senators, Flames and Oilers to ensure they will remain in Canada and protect the lucrative NHL. Canadian television contracts. While the NHL will return to Winnipeg in 2011 when the Atlanta Thrashers will move into the current Winnipeg Jets, Quebec City remains without an NHL team after the league opts to expand only to Las Vegas. In May 2018 the NHL direct plan is believed to strongly support the more recent expansion offer of Seattle as opposed to Quebec, though around the same time the league's formal position on Quebec bids is explicitly re-clarified as "suspended" as opposed to "denied."
The last active NHL player to play for Nordiques is Adam Foote who, on 8 April 2011, announced his retirement after the 2010-11 season. Foote played 16 years with Nordiques/Avalanche franchises for two tasks (1992-2004 and 2008-2011). The last active player is Martin Rucinsky, who announced his retirement after the 2014-15 season.
Uniform change
Before the decision was made to move Nordiques to Denver, Aubut had decided to change the entire team's appearance on the show he was able to attract enough financing to play in Quebec for the 1995-96 season, although due to the NHL deadline deadline, the change would not take effect until the 1996 season -97. Nordiques will leave the blue, white, and red palettes they wear throughout their history for blue, black and dark blue schemes. The team will also leave the "igloo holding a hockey stick" logo they have used for their entire existence in search of a fierce husky Siberian, with "NORDIQUES" in the gray letters underneath and the letter "I" in the team name. formed to look like ice. The design was published in a local newspaper before the team finally decided to move.
season-by-season record
Note: GP = Game played, W = Win, L = Loss, T = Ties, Points = Points, GF = Goal printed for, GA = Goal printed, PIM = Penalty minutes
WHA era
NHL Era
- 1 The season was shortened due to the 1994-95 NHL lockout.
Famous player
Team captain
Termasuk kapten WHA
Hall of Famers
Nomor yang dipensiunkan
After moving to Denver, Landslide returns these four figures to the circulation.
First round draft
Note: This list does not include WHA's choice.
- 1979: Michel Goulet (overall 20)
- 1980: none
- 1981: Randy Moller (11 whole)
- 1982: David Shaw (all 13)
- 1983: none
- 1984: Trevor Stienburg (overall 15)
- 1985: David Latta (overall 15)
- 1986: Ken McRae (18 whole)
- 1987: Bryan Fogarty (ninth overall) and Joe Sakic (overall 15)
- 1988: Curtis Leschyshyn (third overall) and Daniel Dore (fifth overall)
- 1989: Follow Mats (first overall)
- 1990: Owen Nolan (first overall)
- 1991: Eric Lindros (first overall)
- 1992: Todd Warriner (fourth overall)
- 1993: Jocelyn Thibault (overall 10) and Adam Deadmarsh (overall 14)
- 1994: Wade Duster (overall 12) and Jeff Kealty (overall 22)
Franchise score leader
It is a top-ten point printer in the history of Quebec Nordiques, combining total NHL and WHA.
Legend: Pos = Position; GP = Game played; G = Goal; A = Help; Points = Points; P/G = Points per game
See also
- Potential expansion of the National Hockey League, possibly for Quebec City
- Center VidÃÆ' Ã… © otron, replacement hockey facility for ColisÃÆ' Â © e Pepsi (1949-2015)
References
External links
- The Nordiques Conservation Society
- CBC CBC Television Archive in the last days of the team from 1995.
- Just Another Job , the National Film Board of Canada documentary in the first home match of Nordiques
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