Category: National Hockey League

Minnesota North Stars - Goal Magazine -Bobby Smith

Minnesota North Stars (1967-1993)

When the National Hockey League (NHL) decided to expand in March 1965, hockey-crazed Minnesota seemed like the perfect market for one of the six new teams. For 25 seasons it was, for the most part. The team, facing many challenges over the years, moved in 1993.

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Chicago Cougars program

Chicago Cougars

The Chicago Cougars were charter members of the WHA in 1972. The team played three seasons in the Windy City before folding in 1975.

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1973-74 Atlanta Flames Media Guide from the National Hockey League

Atlanta Flames

This was a good 1970’s NHL expansion team!  No, really. The Atlanta Flames had a winning record in five of their eight seasons as the NHL’s only Deep South outpost. They made the playoffs six out of those eight years. They had a core of outstanding young players and a future Hall-of-Fame executive in the GM chair. But the collective memory of the Atlanta Flames is that they weren’t very good because they were God-awful in the playoffs (objectively true) and Southerners hate ice hockey (possibly true, definitely a well-worn trope).

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