Minnesota North Stars 1975-76

Fragment from film "76'Spirited" about North Stars 1975-76.Episodes from reg.season game Kansas City Scouts vs North Stars

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• NHL
• 1975-76

[Mainsail76]

Kansas City is a good mid-western town like St. Louis and Chicago. They deserve another shot at the NHL. Sadly, with Betteman being obsessed with the idea of hockey in the desert, on beaches, and in swamps, it's never going to happen in KC again. He can't wait to put a team in Las Vegas. The Scouts never even had an owner. How can a team succeed without a proper owner? I'm not saying there should be expansion, but some of these southern or desert teams with poor attendance could move to KC.

[werqa123]

@Mainsail76 May be it's could to be Phoenix? I'm still sad what Quebec lose Nordiques. If Winnipeg have the team now. Need to do the same for Quebec. As for KS I have doubts about Nashville and Colambus future. Even Panthers have't so many popularity. Btw LA Kings never was team with good profit. Today Islanders by my view going to close there. All can happens especially after red line remove.))))

[SRBnaVRB]

Get rid of the Wild name, bring back the NorthStars, and the KC Scouts.

[mrceebees14]

As a hockey fan the way this guy sings the national anthem makes me want to scream

"I'M LISTENING TO THE FUCKING SONG!!!"

[Mainsail76]

@5inthehole To say Kansas City is "at best small market" is a bit strange. Granted, it's not Chicago, and in the world of sports it is considered small market, but to say "at best" makes no sense. KC has NFL, MLB, MLS, a major speedway that host two Nascar events a year, not to mention a CHL franchise, and a Independent League baseball team. Add to that major NCAA programs at Kansas, K-State, and Missouri, and I think this region can more than handle the NHL.

[Mainsail76]

@5inthehole

Kansas City (not including Topeka, Lawrence, Omaha, Des Moines) 2,035,335

Columbus- 1,836,536

Raleigh NC-1,749,525

Nashville- 1,589,934

Buffalo- 1,203,997

St. Louis- 2,812,896 (comparable only slightly bigger)

There wouldn't be competition with the Chiefs who play once a week for only 16 weeks. There would be zero competition with the Royals since their seasons would barely overlap. St. Louis is on the other side of the state, it's a five hour plus drive between the two.

[5inthehole]

By the way (if anyone wants to know), Minny was 23-39--7 in 75-76 (not much to celebrate). The team leaving Minny is a prime example of a greedy pig owner not getting want he wanted so he moves the club. Just 6 short years later they won a Coupe-De-Stanley for Dallas. That's sad considering the fans of Minnesota supported the club for 25+ years.

[5inthehole]

@Mainsail76 I'd like to agree with you but I just cannot. Kansas City at best is a small market town and it just doesn't have a large enough population with the money enough to support a hockey club. It would also have to compete for sports dollars against The Chiefs (there die-hard fans) and The Royals (who havn't been good since the mid 80's). Plus with the proximity to St. Louis, Kansas City would never make it.

[WatchVenusSpa]

The Stars' green uniforms of this era are almost identical to the current Winnipeg Jets home uniforms. (Save for the colors.) Another thing to note is this is one of the few existing pieces of footage of the Scouts actually playing a game.

[ldhorricks]

@SRBnaVRB agree the wild is lame name...should go back to the north stars name and uniforms...but I think that Quebec and Hartford deserve their teams back first. Bettman was determined to move all of the so called "small Market" teams to big TV market cities...if he could have he would have moved Calgary and Edmonton as well. I dont like Bettma but In the end he dances to the NHL owners tune...he works for them...and the greedy owners wanted more tv revenue and transfer fees...

[disturbedeleven]

I knew Steve Jensen very well when I was younger, I went to his hockey camp in Minnesota for a few consecutive years and he made an effort to be really close to his the campers

[5inthehole]

What a suck team they were. Ceasur Maniago would have been a good goalie if he wasn't shell shocked his first 5 years. After that he was seeing 3 pucks at once. Tim Young started out looking good but fizzled out. Bill Goldsworthy had 2-3 good years then went bust. The rest were "common" cards in every Topps hockey set. Or shall I say "fillers", those cards you use to make noise in you bike wheels.