nuggets of trivia...

Red Wings/Carolina Hurricanes,tomorrow night... Carolina Hurricanes came from Hartford,and were the Hartford Whalers,originally,and was one of the teams that NHL absorbed in 1979-1980,when the WHA(World Hockey Association) merged with the NHL... before they came to the NHL,they were known as the New England Whalers,based in Hartford,too... Quebec had a real nasty rivalry with Hartford,in both the WHA,and the NHL... Quebec Nordiques moved to Colorado,in 1995,as the Avalanche,and you still see Nordiques' jerseys around,even in Denver... only one of the four teams that merged into NHL(Hartford,Quebec,Winnipeg,and Edmonton)are still in their original cities... Winnipeg(Jets) moved to Phoenix,in 1997,as the Coyotes... there is a drive to get the NHL to go back to Winnipeg,and Quebec,and in Winnipeg,they do have an AHL(American Hockey League)team(Manitoba Moose),but in Quebec City,they honestly need a new arena,which what forced the NHL to move from Quebec City,in the first place...