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Now the healing begins, and I can only hope Bergevin's first day of the summer is like the last scene in the Godfather: -Therrien -Desharnais -Desharnais -Therrien -Tattaglia -Jewish guy with the bullet through the glasses -DD Clear out the company accounts.

I'll take the passion over indifference every day. Do I want Quebec City to win the Cup? Or Winnipeg? Nope. Only one team gets to win it anyhow. Even bloody New Jersey and NYI lose money, and they're in the biggest sports market on the continent. Quebec City wouldn't be in the bottom 8, and would have big support in good years (like Ottawa). And they would care - Atlanta doesn't miss the NHL and Phoenix wouldn't. Only the snowbirds in Florida would, and a Cup is the only reason why Carolina and Tampa would. I'm a fan of the sport, not the dollar figure on Bettman's next TV deal. The bastard makes $15 million and doesn't care one iota in the way that Quebec City and the whole province of Quebec would if the Nordiques came back. The NHL will survive whether or not ESPN or NBC carries it. Passion and packed arenas, I want these for the NHL and any league I watch. The Nordiques are special in a way that few American teams are. They belong in the hockey world.