In 1967, the NHL’s great expansion brought a franchise to America’s hockey heartland. Over the ensuing quarter century, the Minnesota North Stars took the hockeymad denizens of the Twin Cities on a wild ride: consistently inconsistent, occasionally brilliant, and often contending with some existential threat, the North Stars may not have been a model franchise but they were never boring. Their charms, however, were lost on eventual owner Norm Green, whose purchase of the team in 1990 was, in effect, a death sentence for the NHL’s original franchise in Hockeytown, USA.

Written & Narrated by: Jonah Birenbaum (@Birenball | X)
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