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Hockey Fading Away In The South
by Paul on 10/27/11 at 09:47 AM ET
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from Jess Myers of 1500ESPN,
If you think that you’ve had a tough year as a football fan in Minnesota, you’re absolutely right. But it could always be much, much worse. You could be a hockey fan in the South.
If you’re of a certain age, think back to the hurt and emptiness you felt when the North Stars packed up and took their Zamboni to Dallas in 1993. Remember the disbelief, the anger and the depression that came along with once the realization that pro hockey was truly leaving set in. Now, imagine that six months or so later, the Gopher hockey team had gone away, too.
That’s the hockey fan’s nightmare scenario that has played out over the past six months among the small but passionate hockey community in Georgia and Alabama. After a nondescript decade or so of existence, the NHL’s Thrashers were sold and relocated to Winnipeg in the late spring, making Atlanta the only major sports city in America to lose pro teams to both Alberta and Manitoba (the Flames moved from Atlanta to Calgary in 1980).
And earlier this week the news got even worse for hockey fans in Dixie, as the region’s lone link to the world of big-time college hockey was handed a death sentence as well. Though not widely known nationally, the University of Alabama-Huntsville has supported a varsity hockey program for more than three decades.
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