Last Hartford Whalers Game (the ending) PART 3

The ending of the final Hartford Whalers game played at the Hartford Civic Center on April 13, 1997, This is in 3 parts. This is Part 3.

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[TheMikeyEl]

This was one of the worst days ever. I stopped playing hockey shortly after they left. I didn't want to be a hockey player, I wanted to be a Hartford Whaler.

[puffins]

BRING BACK THE WHALERS ALREADY! WE DON'T NEED ANY STINKIN TEAMS IN FLORIDA, ARIZONA, TEXAS OR CAROLINA. JHC! GET REAL PEOPLE!

[obiwanobiwan13]

@pshycu Eh, Nashville has a base growing, they can stay...

But Phoenix...Columbus...Florida..­.

THEY can leave!

[pshycu]

Get rid of Phoenix and nashville and bring back the whale and nordiques!

[crazycanesfan31]

@puffins STFU, asshole. Dinnen's in Florida now, so...what now?! Yah, exactly bitch.

[byff2323]

@rjflesher Wings fan here, and I feel the same way.

[gowolves4]

must feel pretty bad to lose a team that meant so much..

[rjflesher]

Sabres fan here. Seeing this made me want to cry. 

[4lifeReagan]

@oilers000 Carolina is far from a shitty hockey market. It gets over 17,000 fans per game. And expansion Nashville gets over 16,600 per game. Southern markets work but its a matter of staying their and building the sport. Dallas and Tampa are even strong markets as well. Even Florida has seen attendence go up the last 4 season to almost 16,000 a game. In the AHL the best 4 of the 6 Southern markets are in the top 10 in Attendence in 10-11 season. Hockey works in the south!!!

[oilers000]

So many good hockey markets in those days and they all moved to shitty hockey markets

[InvisibleTeeth]

@TheAllanChronicles No, I did it earlier in the game...like in the first period.

[InvisibleTeeth]

@TheAllanChronicles like one game in the playoffs when the Hurricanes played the Bruins. Threw my Whaler jersey on the ice and wished the death upon Karmanos.

Steve Chiasson died that night. Oops.