Exploring the Passion and Potential of Hockey in Quebec City

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00:00I loved when the Nordiques were in the league.

00:05I have a Stasney Jersey.

00:07I thought it was a great place.

00:09I've been there.

00:10It's cool.

00:11I think it's a great city and it's, uh, it's bad ass, but they, you know, the league screws

00:17everything up.

00:18I thought they screwed that up nice and juicy, uh, losing Quebec.

00:22And then for years we've heard, uh, that they want a team back, but the Kings are playing

00:27a couple of games there.

00:28And then what, tomorrow when we're on the air here on Coast to Coast, there's going

00:32to be a devil's game going on in Prague.

00:35Yeah.

00:36Regular season game at that.

00:38So an alert, a warning for everybody, everybody betting Buffalo Sabre point totals, Buffalo

00:44Sabre futures, New Jersey devil futures, obviously there'll still be lines up through

00:50the year, but their regular season starts very similar to like what baseball does.

00:56It's a little bit confusing for people because there's preseason games going on tomorrow,

01:01but there's a regular season game tomorrow.

01:03They're opening up overseas in Europe, uh, with the Buffalo Sabres and the New Jersey

01:07devils are playing two games in the Czech Republic and in Prague, beautiful city, a

01:13very, very passionate hockey, uh, country as well with a great history, obviously.

01:19So we're starting with some regular season hockey tomorrow, Scott, we're off and running.

01:22It's a great time of the year, isn't it, man?

01:24We have the Dodgers and the Friars playing this weekend.

01:27Uh, you got the baseball, the Yankees, Rose, you got baseball playoffs, divisional series,

01:32college football's getting real.

01:34They're dropping a puck in the NHL.

01:36It's awesome stuff.

01:37But you know, with, with the Oakland athletics moving, there's been a lot of sentimentality

01:41about that.

01:43And it opened up old wounds about the Montreal expo, Scott, uh, leaving Montreal and, and

01:49now, you know, the Quebec Nordiques, you and I talked about it.

01:51They want to put a team back in Atlanta for the third time.

01:55No, like, like really now, Houston, the owner of the Rockets for Tina, he's a, Oh, I'm bringing

02:01NHL to Houston.

02:02Okay, fine.

02:03I'm not opposed to it, but how about Quebec city?

02:06Like, you know, like literally, how about like one of the, you know, the bird places

02:09of hockey here where it's a hockey mad place.

02:12I get it.

02:13There's a lot of negatives about Quebec city, uh, from, from the PA's perspective, the taxes

02:19are high.

02:21It's hardcore French.

02:22Like Montreal is bilingual.

02:23Like Montreal is a French city.

02:26People speak English in Montreal, Quebec city.

02:28They don't like point blank.

02:30They don't.

02:31It's a French.

02:32It's the capital.

02:33It's the capital city of Quebec, but it's also a beautiful freaking city, Scott.

02:38It's like going to a medieval European town.

02:40Who cares?

02:41They speak French.

02:42And it's hockey.

02:43Exactly.

02:44You know, 22% of the players are French, right?

02:47In the league.

02:48They're like wall players.

02:50It's isolated, which it is from a travel perspective, you know, but how isolated is it?

02:55Like really?

02:56We're going to Utah now, guys.

02:57So like all these excuses that they build up, but the, the, the gist of it here, and

03:01I don't like this, it's their bias.

03:04So Las Vegas paid $500 million to get into the league.

03:08Uh, Seattle paid $500 million to get into the league.

03:11They want to charge Quebec city a billion dollars.

03:14And they say, well, Vegas and Seattle were new markets and risks.

03:19This is an ATM machine for you guys.

03:21You know, you're going to sell out every game and make money.

03:24So if you know, and you're telling them this, why aren't we all just accelerating this to

03:29get them in the league?

03:30If you know, Oh yeah.

03:31By the way, you guys are going to sell.

03:32And Quebec is a unique market guys.

03:34They have like a very big media, like they support their own.

03:38Like it's pretty crazy.

03:39Scott, like nobody would think all Quebec city radio.

03:41Like right now, the FM shock jock in, in Quebec city, Scott's got like 800,000 listeners,

03:46bro.

03:47You know what I mean?

03:48Like they like to, it's like the French hockey shows there.

03:51There's like 2 million people watching the freaking post game show after the game.

03:54Cause they're banging a dash.

03:56They're all yelling.

03:57Everybody sucks.

03:58They take it to a new next level in Quebec.

04:00Dude, they need the Northeast back in a league.

04:03Fine.

04:04You want to bring all this stuff, just freaking do it.

04:07Just get it over with and do it.

04:09Yeah.

04:10I am all for that.

04:12I have said over and over repeatedly that Atlanta already swung and missed twice.

04:18They went broke in 10 years and all they want to do is move it out to the rich white people's

04:23suburbs.

04:25That's their idea.

04:26That's a pathetic idea.

04:28Houston has about as much, listen, hockey in Houston.

04:32Are you kidding me?

04:33What is next?

04:34Honestly, can we, can we just stop with Houston for a second?

04:38They have enough.

04:39Quebec is a hockey, like just an absolutely perfect place for the NHL.

04:46It always was.

04:47Being French has nothing to do with it.

04:50They're passionate.

04:51They're crazy.

04:52They're rabid.

04:53They're packed the games, their shows, their market, their TV, their radio, everything

04:57about it.

04:58And it's a sexy city.

05:01It's a lover's city.

05:02It's like Paris.

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