Flashback Friday: North Stars Announced Departure to Dallas 25 Years Ago

And though it's been 25 years now, the news that broke on the evening of March 9, 1993, still stings for fans of Minnesota's first NHL team.
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[@bubbacarlson333]

The saddest day in Minnesota sports history

[@krossen4]

YEP!

[@michaelleroy9281]

Bobby Smith didn't go with the team to Dallas he retired after that season

[@crosstatt7441]

I once was on a family trip in California. I met a couple from Minnesota and asked who owned the North Stars. He told me about Norm Green.

[@johnnyroberts3761]

I don’t think it’s him, but that PA Announcer sounds very similar to Adam Abrams, the current PA of the Minnesota Wild.

[@michaelleroy9281]

The last game was April 13, 1993, home game Blackhawks 3, North Stars 2 the last ever game was on April 15 , 1993 at Detroit Red Wings 5 North Stars 3

[@michaelleroy9281]

It's going to be 30 years soon

[@NolantheReds38]

Minnesota North stars May had the best uniforms in and all sports. And Neal Broten, they got to get the guy in the NHL Hall of Fame

[@vivianoni9565]

A black base on a jersey was *nouveau* in the early 90s. The stars did it _right_ by trimming in gold and keeping the team's green, albeit as a complement color.

[@NolantheReds38]

@@vivianoni9565 I don’t know not a huge fan of Dallas Stars uniform. I hate anything from Dallas. I just wish Minnesota wouldn’t have had such a terrible owner, hence they still would be in Minnesota and called the north stars instead of the Wild. Even disliking it More was Roger Staubach was one of the people who persuaded the north star owner (I refuse to say name) To come to Dallas.

[@vivianoni9565]

As a womanizer, Norm had his rationale to skip town with assets in tow. When the crts bear down on one as a hi-roller, it's easy to find the mojo for an exit.

[@NolantheReds38]

I think it was a combination with him skipping town to try to leave behind the trouble he was getting into with his “alleged” Vince McMahon like ways, And the other he felt he could make more money having the team in Dallas.And knowing Norm Green’s buddy in Roger Staubach was a large reason to convince him to move down there, just makes me hate Staubach and the Cowboys more. Norm Green a guy who originally owns the Flames in the deep south of Atlanta and moves them way up North to Calgary,Then buys a new team the North Stars who are way up North and moves that team way down south? Idiot put your daddy’s money elsewhere NHL fans don’t want ya. You Philandering perv. jerk! “allegedly”

[@NolantheReds38]

@@vivianoni9565 (Norms womanizing wasn’t the problem) & getting away to Dallas didn’t help for it didn’t work For Old Norman, for as soon as he moved my beloved North Stars to Dallas he got in trouble again with doing more let’s just say “ Vince McMahon like activity” again, yes more girls were suing in Dallas, the first girl bypassed the probable NDA & leveled a suit in the first year they moved to Dallas on Norm. And what is with Norm he buys the Flames and then decides he’s better off getting out of the south of Atlanta (probably back then a good idea in the NHL.) n moves them way up North to Calgary. Then he sells the.Flames, n almost immediately buys the North Stars and does just the opposite of what he did with the flames. For he decides to buy a very northern team this time in the North Stars and he decides to move them way down south to Dallas? I say keep your daddy’s money Norm and stay out of the NHL. N STAY away from females “you perv!”.

[@vivianoni9565]

Scammed by the Gunds & Green, pro hockey had spirit in Minnesota.

[@nu66ets]

Norm Green couldn't run a team properly in the State of Hockey. We needed to move owners, not teams.

[@doug4494]

There was nothing like a sold out crowd at the Met. I was a huge North Star fan. You can't blame Norm Green for moving them. He's a business man. And his job is to make money. I blame the fans for the team moving. North Star fans were fair weather fans. A lot of times they wouldn't start going to games until the playoffs started. And even some years the North Stars would have to make it to the second round of the playoffs before they started going. In 1991, the year they went to the finals, they were drawing only like 5,000 people until they started winning towards the end of the season. So, quit blaming Norm Green. Unless, you were a loyal season ticket holder.

[@michaelleroy9281]

Games in the early 70s were a tough ticket to get especially against the Blackhawks

[@doug4494]

@@michaelleroy9281 No offense. But I wasn't born until 1972. So, they drew a lot of fans at the met in the early 70's? If so, what happened?

[@michaelleroy9281]

​​​@@doug4494 I remember the 1971-72 and 1972-73 teams they were good and sold out most every game in 1973-74 the team was getting bad and attendance started going down I was born in 1955 , so I know the history of the team from the beginning

[@ericpeltz9928]

Great fan support doesn’t necessarily guarantee a team from moving. Just look at the original Cleveland Browns. They had great fan support but Art Modell still moved them to Baltimore and had no interest in keeping them in Cleveland.

[@crosstatt7441]

@@ericpeltz9928That’s exactly correct. Economics also play a role. You have to put some fault on the local government when a team moves.

[@0mattp0]

Dallas says thank you. I love the Dallas Stars they are me favorite sports team, and have been since they moved in the 90’s. I wish Minnesota fans would kinda just accept they are Dallas’s team. We could have a great rivalry but you guys seem bitter. When you hosted the outdoors game (not the winter classic) I don’t understand why you didn’t pick us to play. I understand it probably really sucks when a team leaves you have the Wild now. Do you get behind them?

[@ericpeltz9928]

People In Baltimore are still bitter about the Colts moving after all these years even though they got a new team which has won two Super Bowls. So please shut your mouth about us.

[@arcadeshift5071]

You understand the league picks the Winter Classic matchups?? The Wild had no choice on who they played. The North Stars aren't your team. They never played in Dallas. Just because the business/admin/records moved to Dallas doesn't mean they're your memories. We love the Wild and look forward to hopefully getting good enough in a few years to kicking the Dallas Stars' asses. Imagine if the Cowboys left Dallas, you're saying those fans shouldn't have any sour feelings about it? Hockey is 100x more important to Minnesotans than it is to people in Texas, we're allowed to love our new team and be sad the old team left. It's not that difficult to understand.

[@taylorsmith9629]

The Stars will always be Minnesota’s team. Dallas should be renamed and the North Stars and their history should be returned to Minnesota.

[@crosstatt7441]

@@taylorsmith9629Good luck buying the IP back from the Dallas owner. It’s not going to be gift wrapped.