Thursday, July 21, 2011
Legacy of franchise moves
Winnipeg is now experiencing it.
The Vancouver Province has a story that Evander Kane is considering asking Bobby Hull for permission to wear #9 next season…. As a history buff I look to precedent on the issue and I advocate unofficially recognizing Hull’s #9, Hawerchuk’s #10 and Thomas Steen’s #25. In other cases where numbers were retired and the team moved, the aquiring city did not keep the retirement of numbers.
When the Quebec Nordiques were moved to Colorado the Avalanche promptly returned all the retired numbers of J.C. Tremblay, Marc Tardiff, Michel Goulet and Peter Stastny to circulation. Why wouldn’t they? The fans in Denver had no memories of these players. Carolina did the same thing when they received the Hartford Whalers ...
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