No Stars: When Minnesota Lost Pro Hockey

[@nicholaspalodichuk1064]

Thanks for watching and I’m so happy to be a part of this. And of course , Norm Green sucks!

[@NorthStarsForever]

Great job on this documentary. Its been 30 years, and my blood still boils watching them blow up the Met, and re-living the Norm Green era.

[@toddpayne923]

Even though I have never lived in Minnesota, I do have a couple of connections. I grew up in Birmingham, Alabama and in the 1982-1983 season, Birmingham had the minor league team, the South Stars. My parents and I loved going to the games and that really helped me love the game of hockey. I now live in Dallas (don't hate me) and yes I do LOVE the Stars. Huge fan....I do respect the hell out of the Minnesota people and the history of the franchise. This is a GREAT documentary!!!!

[@bshaker1188]

Very well done. Long live the North Stars memories and the spectacular Metropolitan Sports Center. 🏒💚

[@wesleyblanton2432]

Long Story here, but it’s one of my Favorite Memories with Grandfather before he died. In 1980 when I turned 10, My Grandpa starting bringing me to one Vikings game a Year. If there happened to be a North Stars Game the night before, my Grandpa would get tickets and we would go to the Game. I think it was around 84 and the Oilers were in Town. It was Saturday Afternoon and we had just arrived in the Twin Cities from the Iron Range. I asked my Grandpa if we were going to go the the North Stars Game? He said no not Tonight. I think he saw the disappointment in my face and asked if I was upset. I said no I just wanted to see Wayne Gretzky. He said the Oilers are in Town!? He made one phone call and we had standing room only Tickets for the game. Some of the best seats ever!! My Grandfather was a very boisterous Man, when he cheered You heard on the other side of the stadium. Anyhow he bent down to tie his shoe, at that moment the wave came by us. He jumped up and started screaming at the top of his lungs looking around a little confused as there was a Tv timeout and the players were just standing around. As he looked around he tapped me on my shoulder and ask what had happened? He wanted to know what he was cheering for. I said it was the Wave that went by. We both cracked up and he then bent back down to finish tying his shoe! In 1991 I went into the Air Force, I got Stationed about an hour from Dallas. When the North Stars moved to Dallas, I thought great my Team followed me. I went to one game in Dallas and it wasn’t remotely close to the same as the North Stars playing at Met Center. I became a Sharks Fan that Day!

Your videos are always so entertaining and informative! Thank you for this! 🌺💚

[@JUVI9596]

Cool documentary. I’m from Winnipeg and I never really understood what happened to the North Stars. And 3 years later by beloved Jets went to Phoenix. Glad we both have teams back. Winnipeg vs Minnesota is a a cool rivalry

[@craignelson3243]

Of the many North Stars games I attended at the Met, the 2 that wiil always stick out in my memory were when Henry Boucha was attacked by Dave Forbes of the Boston Bruins and the last one they ever played against the Black Hawks.

[@RuZe_Tynuch02]

I was lucky that my Grandma and Grandpa told me about the North Stars, they even had the Minnesota North Stars: History and Memories with Lou Nanne book that they gave to me. My dad was also Coach by a Former North Stars when he was in High School.

[@NoirAngel921]

This documentary was awesome. So awesome, I want another. Do one on the Minnesota Twins at the Metropolitan Stadium. Edit - When Norm Green dies, his grave stone should just read "You Suck".

[@jaycob1830]

North Stars were top 5 in the league after christmas 1990. They were not a team to be messed with, just didnt show up during the first half

[@mikehanzal9562]

Great documentary. What I think people forget is that the fans in Minnesota are as much to blame as norn green for the teams departure. Nobody was attending games in the late eighties and early nineties. They showed up for the cup run in 91, then the next year back to a half capacity building for home games. If I'm the owner, losing money I would have bounced as well.

[@signalboost9636]

Wish i was old enough to have seen a game at The Met, unfortunately being born in 1999 they were long gone. My mom says it was like entering the gates of heaven. All I've ever know is the X, but in 2020-21 when the wild started honoring the North Stars with the reverse retro throwbacks, that have gradually evolved into the 78's alternate jersey, it just feels right.

[@ericpetersen4185]

Felt like someone died when they left, would been amazing to see Mike Modano and Brett Hull in a North Stars jersey together.

[@ericpetersen4185]

Also… Norm Sucks!

[@machinistmikethetinkerer4827]

Many many memories as a kid of not only the Stars but tailgating with KQ out there blasting music on car speakers, concerts, the Twins and Vikings next door...so bummed and pissed when they left. NORM GREED STILL SUCKS

[@dillondunn2136]

Brotherhood 20+24!

[@zeldamaster702]

Nick was honestly my favorite part of the whole doc. If you were gonna get the Everyman perspective on the whole thing, they couldn’t have gotten a better person for it!

[@frassonracing]

Brotherhood!

[@bshaker1188]

Two killers were Norm covering up the classic multi coloured seats at the Met and making them red and then changing the jerseys. Norm sat behind me and my buddy at the NHL All-Star game in LA in 2002 even though he had already sold the Stars. I wanted to go buy the biggest draft beer Staples Center sold and have a terrible “on purpose” accident.

[@MarkHerrmann-wf2yq]

I was at the last game against the Blackhawks, I ripped the armrest off my seat for a keepsake, still have the ticket stub tacked to it. We would buy student tickets for like $10!

[@potatodavid1987]

Norm Still Sucks

[@seangundstrom5999]

Norm Green Sucks

[@920Trading]

Great show! Norm Greed sucks!

[@markmakowski1221]

Norm Greed!

[@seanlaney3520]

Norm greed still sucks

[@kareemmoreland9119]

I love how the know it all hockey fans up North tried to act like people in the South needed to take Hockey 101.

[@DarrianCrane]

Sad insufferable fanbase who is still refusing to accept the fact they neglected a team to the point they had no option other than to leave

[@machinistmikethetinkerer4827]

We're you there? Did you grow up with them like we did? Did you experience what had happened? Did you watch this? Do you know the whole picture and details? I'm not going to get into it with you and you're entitled to your opinion but my opinion is besides your slim observation, in short it's ALOT deeper than that. Not as 'simple' as you think.

[@DarrianCrane]

@ no amount of revisionist history will change the facts yall didnt care

[@gregpaspatis9425]

​@machinistmikethetinkerer4827 I grew up in the D.C. area that's within 50 miles of Baltimore when the NFL Colts moved out during the very early morning hours of March 29, 1984, it wasn't very dissimilar at all to how the North Stars owner presumably had no other options left, but in the case of the Colts the owner (Robert Irsay) and the G.M. both made decisions that simply drove away fans from going to home games any longer, the owner's threats of moving became more of a reality, the state government in Maryland tried one last ploy in trying to seize the team away from the owner Irsay through the use of "eminent domain", which caused the owner to respond by having all the significant possessions belong to the Colts to start being secretly packed away into six waiting Mayflower vans at their team business and practice complex in Owings Mills, Maryland, then heading off to the capital of Indiana as snow was falling down around them during the early, early morning on that day.

[@mitchking4800]

Norm Green sucks. Thumbs up if you agree.