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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.