I still remember Rick Monday's home run in the '81 NLCS against the Expos. Allowed me to go to the World Series game 5 Dodgers/Yankees at Dodger Stadium. I hope Montreal gets their team back soon. It's a shame they moved to D.C.

Thank you! I knew there was a reason I didn't think the Bullets were in Baltimore...!

I saw a Kings/Atlanta Flames game in the 70's before Flames moved to Calgary. Thrashers was strike two for the city of Atlanta. Now I hear they're a frontrunner for NHL expansion coming soon. Not sure Atlanta is a hockey town. Quebec should be the next city to get a club. I kind of miss the Nordiques, sort of. I'm a Kings/Ducks fan so my teams aren't going anywhere thank god.

Minor league hockey has worked here. The Knights were successful enough in the 1990s to get rhe NHL to give us the Thrashers, and the Gladiators are successful now. Just not sure we can support the NHL version...but then again, places like Tampa and Dallad make it work...

Minor league sports in general is just great value for your buck. We have two major league teams for every sport here in SoCal/ Orange County and we still have minor league hockey and baseball within a two hour drive from the area. I'm about a one and a half hour drive down to the Palm Springs area. They have the Coachella Valley Firebirds which are the minor league club for the Seattle Kraken ( one of the worst nicknames in sports by the way). Great, fairly new arena for hockey. This is their second season in the AHL. Can't wait for Utah and what they come up with as far as a nickname. Probably going to be just as clever as Lightning and Wild. Horrific nicknames. There must be something in the water there for the NHL to even consider going back to the ATL. Small markets can make it work. As far as Atlanta...we will see.

The Thrashers biggest problem was their ownership and (mis)management personnel. Hopefully that will be better if we get another shot at the NHL.

Already had the Flames and Thrashers don't know if Atlanta is a hockey city.

Maple leaf fan here. I did live most of my life in Rochester, N.Y and we have a AHL team called the Rochester Americans who are playing their 68th season this year. Been keeping track on how they are doing via internet and seem to do doing alright.

I thought the Seattle Pilots became the Texas Rangers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Pilots

nope - the Rangers came from Washington

Seattle Pilots became the Milwaukee Brewers in 1970.

I haven't thought of the Colorado Rockies in years....

Most people who are sports fans don't know or don't remember that for a brief time there was a Rockies hockey club before the baseball team. I think only the old-timers would know that. I was a kid then but I still remember the hockey team.

Well...I guess the 51st state had a better team. For some strange reason our good neighbors to the north are a little upset and decided to show us who really has the better team. I might be wrong but I think this horrific loss wouldn't of happened if that lady ( I forget her name) was in charge. I wish I could say don't mess with the U.S. but maybe it's don't mess with Canada.😎

The franchise was originally in Baltimore and moved to D.C. Then they changed their name to the Wizards about twenty or so years ago because Bullets and thinking there's a gun attached to the nickname
apparently offended many. Why who knows? Bullets was a much better nickname. Political correctness really sucks.