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I think the fact that the North Stars left affects the national following... There are a lot of people who grew up here as North Stars fans and moved away before the Wild came so they have zero attachment to the team (the funny thing is that at a game almost half the fans are dressed in North Stars gear instead of Wild gear, **** Norm Green).
These people still love hockey, but have gravitated toward their now hometown team. My uncle is one of these sellouts.
Don't blame the under 30-crowd of hockey fans. We're too young to actually remember the North Stars!
When I was a little kid and just casually watching hockey, I thought the North Stars sounded really cool. I liked their logo too. I think I was like 10 when they moved to Dallas.
I was living in Colorado and it was before the Avalanche moved to Denver, I would just watch whatever was on ESPN or ESPN2 and the playoffs. Then I started following the Devils during the 93-94 season and especially the 94 playoffs, mostly because they had some guy named Brodeur in goal, who I thought was even more fun to watch than Patrick Roy and I was originally from New Jersey. I moved back to New Jersey a year later and started watching every Devils game and still do to this day.
The Canadiens were one of the first teams I followed, I liked Patrick Roy a lot, he was one of my favorites. I usually just watched whatever was on ESPN in the early 90's, since we had no local team in Colorado. And I have some good memories of the Canadiens 93 playoff run, Roy was a beast that playoffs and pretty much won all by himself. I also followed Colorado in the 96 playoffs because of Roy and Claude Lemieux, but that was a year after I moved back to New Jersey.
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