The best and worst of the NHL’s relocated or reborn teams

[Llama19]

To quote:

"The City of Seattle is expected to submit its expansion application for an NHL team in the very near future. The group behind the renovation of Seattle’s KeyArena has registered more than three dozen internet domain names as possible nicknames for the team.

It’s almost a shame that Seattle took a little longer to get its act together while Vegas was launching its impossible-to-follow act. Had Seattle also launched this season, it would have done so 100 years after the Seattle Metropolitans of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association won the Stanley Cup in 1917. That would have been a neat story.

While everyone prepares to chronicle the birth of the NHL’s 32nd team, I started thinking about the teams that were born and died — or were relocated — in my lifetime, a chaotic period that led the league to the wise viewpoint that relocation should be a last resort if the NHL ever wants to be taken seriously by fans or investors."

Source: www.fanragsports.com/nhl/the-best-and-worst-of-the-nhls-relocated-or-reborn-teams/

 

[Killion]

Fascinating article full of all kinds of historical trivia & upon review, believe its best suited for here, BOH.

 

[Gnashville]

It gave me a good reason to listen to Brass Bonanza so it’s a great article

 

[Killion]

It gave me a good reason to listen to Brass Bonanza so it’s a great article

... fond of that number Gnash?... 10hrs of it.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykh2RSpzxa4

 

[Gnashville]

... fond of that number Gnash?... 10hrs of it.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykh2RSpzxa4

Actually the Predators started using it from time to time. But even 10 hours of butter pecan ice cream could get old.

 

[Killion]

Actually the Predators started using it from time to time. But even 10 hours of butter pecan ice cream could get old.

Indeed..... I believe the original was the score & title (Brass Bonanza) of a hockey film that came out pre-67 expansion that was then "borrowed" by the Whalers & it sounds like the Preds as well.

 

[garnetpalmetto]

Indeed..... I believe the original was the score & title (Brass Bonanza) of a hockey film that came out pre-67 expansion that was then "borrowed" by the Whalers & it sounds like the Preds as well.

Not quite, Killion.

Brass Bonanza by Jack Say Songfacts

Little was known about the origin of the Brass Bonanza until 2010 when Jeff Jacobs, the determined sports reporter for The Hartford Courant, tracked down the composer... in Belgium. He was listed in the song's credits as "Jack Say," but his name is really Jacques Ysaye, pronounced Ee-sigh-ya. He told Jacobs, "The original title was 'Evening Beat,' but I don't know why the editor changed it. My pseudonym is Jack Say and I was arranger and conductor of the recording orchestra."

Jacques Ysaye is the grandson of the famous Belgian violinist Eugene Ysaye, who for a time was the music director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Jacque made his living as a composer, and sold some of his songs to music libraries that producers could purchase for use on commercials, corporate videos and highlight packages. In 1976, Whalers announcers Bill Rasmussen and Bob Neumeier put together an album with sound clips from the season's highlights, and used what would become "The Brass Bonanza" on the album as a musical bridge. The song came from a library they purchased from a local company called D&K Sound, which got it from Sam Fox Publishing.

George Ducharme, who worked in marketing for the team, heard the album and loved the song. It was instantly identifiable, as Ducharme said, "Three notes and everybody knows what is." When he started using it in the Hartford Civic Center during games, it quickly caught on with the fans, and had the added benefit of annoying the opposing teams, as an obnoxious '70s horn theme isn't what you want to hear after giving up a goal.

The original article from the Courant is at The Beat Turned Into A Bonanza

After Say sold the song to a musical library, Ducharme, then involved in marketing with the Whalers, was looking for something to liven up the Civic Center. Announcers Bill Rasmussen and Bob Neumeier did an LP of the 1975-76 season highlights and used a musical bridge they got from D&K Sound in Wethersfield. One Sunday Ducharme had a bunch of people over his place. The record was played. And, voila, Ducharme knew he had something.

"Three notes and everybody knows what is,'' Ducharme, who still serves as special assistant to Baldwin, has told me. "It's a marketing dream. Three notes …''

When we spoke in 2003 about "Brass Bonanza," D&K owner Ron DeLisa said he had purchased a 40-record library from Sam Fox Publishing and was licensed to use the songs.

"I'd charge $75 a 'needle-drop' to use for commercials and such,'' DeLisa said. "And when we made the 45, we had to pay 2-3 cents a copy to the library. We got a few legal letters from Fox about using it in an arena. I told them there's not millions in this and the Whalers will drop the song before paying. That was the end of it.''

 

[Killion]

Not quite, Killion.

Brass Bonanza by Jack Say Songfacts



The original article from the Courant is at The Beat Turned Into A Bonanza

Interesting... @Fenway posted the video I'm referring to on the History of Hockey Board some time ago that featured "Brass Bonanza" as the soundtrack to a sort of collage of clips that I couldve sworn was from the early or mid 60's.... Perhaps he can find it, post it here for all to see.

 

[cutchemist42]

Ive always wondered how many initial investors in the NHL expansion/relocations lost money?

 

[tony d]

Thanks for posting, always fun to read stuff like this. Will be interesting to see how Seattle does. Will they be another Vegas or another 1992-1993 Ottawa Senators?

 

[Killion]

Ive always wondered how many initial investors in the NHL expansion/relocations lost money?

Since 67/68 or all the way back to 1917?.... incl the NHA founded in 1909. Be a Hell of a long list cc.

 

[tarheelhockey]

Error 404, article not showing up.

 

[Llama19]

Error 404, article not showing up.

Not taken down...just changed location...

Fixing first post but here is the new link: www.fanragsports.com/nhl/the-best-and-worst-of-the-nhls-relocated-or-reborn-teams/

 

[Fenway]

 

[Fenway]

Dallas has worked well - they should have been an expansion team but that is another story.

The worst relocation by far was Cleveland. The city could support hockey but not at the location the arena was at and with a hideous team from Oakland.

Sports Illustrated's national hockey writer went there in 1977 to find out what happened. Whatever became of Peter Gammons

Cleveland's not barren

The Cleveland Barons finished what they thought would be their last practice one morning last week, then gathered at Little Joe's Pub to wait for their team to expire. For more than a month the Barons had lived on skid row, the victims of meager home crowds, a last-place record in their division and a financially strapped owner—San Francisco hotel-man Mel Swig—who had poured $2.4 million into the ailing franchise over the last six months and now saw no reason to prolong his misery.

The Barons had received their Feb. 1 paychecks two weeks late, and they were still owed their Feb. 15 checks. On one road trip, a bus driver refused to transport the Barons from their hotel to the arena until he was paid in cash, and a Pittsburgh hotel refused to house the team until Coach Jack Evans agreed to put the entire bill on his American Express card. Back home, the Barons' credit rating was no better; one day a company reclaimed a videotape machine from Evans' office while the coach was at lunch. "Someday it'll all seem funny," said Forward Gary Sabourin. "But now I just want to be a long way from Cleveland and the Barons."

 

[Killion]

Dallas has worked well...

... Tom Hicks says "Hello".... claimed that even with back to back Cups in pepetuity it was hopeless.... completely out to lunch, overextended elsewhere, making excuses. Good ownership. Without it unless quite literally an 06 club (and even then) Transience be thy name.

 

[Llama19]

Dallas has worked well - they should have been an expansion team but that is another story.

The worst relocation by far was Cleveland. The city could support hockey but not at the location the arena was at and with a hideous team from Oakland.

Sports Illustrated's national hockey writer went there in 1977 to find out what happened. Whatever became of Peter Gammons

Still kickin'...

GammonsDaily.com - MLB Analysis from Peter Gammons - Unfiltered MLB Anaysis.

 

[cutchemist42]

Since 67/68 or all the way back to 1917?.... incl the NHA founded in 1909. Be a Hell of a long list cc.

Haha....but honestly since the Ottawa expansion.

 

[Killion]

Haha....but honestly since the Ottawa expansion.

So since December (months are important when calculating such, like how many bombs were dropped on Berlin in December 44... by the Americans alone, not the Allied Forces, just the Americans) 1990 when it was announced Ottawa & Tampa would be joining the fold.... That about right cc?.... googles your friend... I'm not when it comes to counting the victims, self inflicted suicides.

 

[Stumbledore]

Actually the Predators started using it from time to time. But even 10 hours of butter pecan ice cream could get old.

The trick is to switch over to double chocolate mint every once in a while...

 

[Killion]

The trick is to switch over to double chocolate mint every once in a while...

... so long as there not After Eight Mint Chocolates.... Ill go along with that.... Brandy plz....

... and ya, dont need ta ask... Make it a double.

 

[crobro]

New Jersey and Colorado have to be the best relocated teams

Calgary and Carolina also both won cups