This video helped me win a bet. I showed up to a drop in game wearing this jersey and someone asked why I was wearing a Dallas jersey. I said it was actually a North Stars jersey and they were like, “The North Stars NEVER wore this jersey.” And I was like, “Check out this scene from Mighty Ducks. They’re not in Dallas!”
I’m a Dallas fan and have one of these jerseys. I’ve had people call me out for wearing a fake jersey because it doesn’t say Dallas or have the Texas patches on the shoulders lol Norm Green was preparing for the relocation long before it happened and the rebranding was part of it. A lot of Texans weren’t fans of hockey until the Stars showed up in 1993, so most have no idea they wore practically the exact same jerseys for a couple years in Minnesota
@ThorCarlton not entirely true. Norm Green was on the NHL's board called NHL vision for the 90s. One of the things the board suggested for growth in the 90s was new logos and uniforms. One of the first things Norm did once he had control of the North Stars was getting team president Lou Nanne to find someone to design a new crest. There were a few different prototype jerseys designed. One of them included both logos. Now Norm did all of that before he spent $20 million of his own money renovating the Met Center, which he didn't even own. So the new logo wasn't part of leaving Minnesota. People just like to think that.
@@danbratten3103 I don’t doubt that it was planned, as a lot of the teams changed their jerseys and logos for the 1991-92 season/75th anniversary, but some of the design changed were made with relocation in mind, such as dropping any reference to the North and neutralizing the colors a bit to make them more marketable in other areas. He tried moving the team to Anaheim a couple years before moving to Dallas, but the league gave Anaheim to Disney. I guess it’s wrong to say the rebrand was with the intention of moving, but Norm definitely had the possibility of relocation in mind when they did it.
@@Thebrosephone ha all this time, I was like why is he calling him a farmer, thought it meant something from his childhood in Minnesota, and I even play/played hockey, face palm myself
I had a hat and I think a jersey. Grew up in Duluth, MN and Fargo, ND. My brother still had the N with the Star logo in a team trashcan he got one year. Looks brand new still.
Mike Modano is my cousin. I remember watching him play hockey in the street in Livonia Michigan in his teens when I was like 3. He joined the north stars, got kinda famous, and I didn't see him much after. And then I went and watched this in the theater and saw my cousin. It was really cool. No one in the fam even knew he was in it. My best memory of him was actually around 89 and I was a kid playing videos games and he was already pretty close to a star, and he made me turn he it off to watch a hockey game. Lol
@@boltinabottle6307 he may be now. I don't follow him closely and haven't talked to him in 30 years. He doesn't keep in touch with the family. He's never been to a family reunion. I don't blame him though. We are kind of hicks. Lol
It would have made a lot more sense to have Neal Broten in place of Basil. Neal actually played pee-wees in Minnesota. Whereas Basil McRae grew up in Canada.
It wasn't Norm Green's fault. Blame the Metropolitan Sports Commission, who owned the Met, who never helped with renovations to the Met. The Gund Bros, who owned the team in the late 70s and 80s, had to spend their own money to put a few suites in. Norm Green spent $20 million of his own money renovating the Met. Also, blame the fair-weather fans in the Twin Cities for not supporting the team better. The original owners almost folded the team in the late 70s because of horrible attendance. The league instead merged the North Stars with the equally troubled Cleveland Barons with the Gund Bros, who owned the Barons, taking ownership of the North Stars. By the late 80s, attendance at games was in the toilet. In fact, the 89-90 season, the North Stars were dead last in attendance. Without decent support from the local fans & the Sports Commision, the Gunds made plans to move the North Stars to San Jose after the 89-90 season. The Star Tribune and Channel 5 News did a poll asking people if they'd care if the North Stars left. 60% said they didn't care. The league did a deal allowing the Gunds the San Jose market and leave the Stars in Minnesota to new owners. 2 guys bought the team but were soon in money trouble, and they sold the team to Norm Green. The run to the finals and a buy 2 get 1 season ticket promo boosted for the remainder of the 90-91 & 91-92 season boosted attendance late in 90-91 season and into the next season. But with the promo ending for the 92-93 season and the team playing poorly, attendance dropped again. The league had enough and gave Norm Green permission to look for a different market.
@@danbratten3103 That's a great and objective summary. The MSC and the twin cities authorities kept on shutting the door on Green's face when he proposed several projects and improvements to make the franchise viable (connecting the Met Center to the Mall of America, renovating the old Civic Centre in St-Paul, etc). It's always easier to depict Green as a bad guy and claim all sorts of urban legends, fantasies and feeling better about it but he did everything he could to keep the team in Minnesota. I'm a original North Stars fan and moved my fandom south with the team. I was pissed when they moved but that ballsy move turned out to be a successful one and Minnesota finally woke up and built a great arena in downtown St-Paul for its new NHL franchise.
@mathieunicolet3774 thank you. My grandfather and my dad had season tickets for the first 19 seasons. I was going to games as a little kid in the early-mid 80s. I still cheer for the Stars. I tried to like the Wild but I couldn't do it. Still miss the N* and the Met.
Two things didn’t add up here. How did they know each other from PeeWee’s when McRae is from Canada and Bombay is from the US. And how can McRae give Bombay a tryout in the minors, he’s a player not an owner or GM
@@chocolateface8664 they could’ve played against each other in PeeWee tournaments. Being that Basil was in the NHL he’d have connections with GMs or owners of minor leagues
Mike Modano is a Hall of Famer and member of the 500 goal club. Basil McRae was one of those role players that specialized in checking and fighting. Those kind of players are always fan favorites.
In a recent Wild on 7th podcast, Mike Modano actually admitted that he swapped with Basil because he couldn't finish the lines th-cam.com/video/VL6zSzIj4cQ/w-d-xo.htmlsi=JngP13970v3Bvb0y&t=4057
Mike Modano HOF'er and one of the 100 Greatest NHL Players. He changed ice hockey for the southern half of the USA.
i thought he was a farmer
It’s crazy how one of those North Stars turned out to be one of the greatest US born players of all time
This video helped me win a bet. I showed up to a drop in game wearing this jersey and someone asked why I was wearing a Dallas jersey. I said it was actually a North Stars jersey and they were like, “The North Stars NEVER wore this jersey.” And I was like, “Check out this scene from Mighty Ducks. They’re not in Dallas!”
Good call. I had to look it up, definitely don't remember those tarps in Minny. They wore them last three seasons.
@@deanbalboatheir last 2 seasons. 91-92 season and 92-93 season.
I’m a Dallas fan and have one of these jerseys. I’ve had people call me out for wearing a fake jersey because it doesn’t say Dallas or have the Texas patches on the shoulders lol
Norm Green was preparing for the relocation long before it happened and the rebranding was part of it. A lot of Texans weren’t fans of hockey until the Stars showed up in 1993, so most have no idea they wore practically the exact same jerseys for a couple years in Minnesota
@ThorCarlton not entirely true. Norm Green was on the NHL's board called NHL vision for the 90s. One of the things the board suggested for growth in the 90s was new logos and uniforms. One of the first things Norm did once he had control of the North Stars was getting team president Lou Nanne to find someone to design a new crest. There were a few different prototype jerseys designed. One of them included both logos.
Now Norm did all of that before he spent $20 million of his own money renovating the Met Center, which he didn't even own. So the new logo wasn't part of leaving Minnesota. People just like to think that.
@@danbratten3103 I don’t doubt that it was planned, as a lot of the teams changed their jerseys and logos for the 1991-92 season/75th anniversary, but some of the design changed were made with relocation in mind, such as dropping any reference to the North and neutralizing the colors a bit to make them more marketable in other areas. He tried moving the team to Anaheim a couple years before moving to Dallas, but the league gave Anaheim to Disney.
I guess it’s wrong to say the rebrand was with the intention of moving, but Norm definitely had the possibility of relocation in mind when they did it.
I heard you were a farmer 😂😂
Actually, i became a lawyer but i'm coaching Pee Wee now. It's my team, the DUCKS!
Mike Honcho That was random, lol
Ivan Gotsukdov Good to know
@@Thebrosephone ha all this time, I was like why is he calling him a farmer, thought it meant something from his childhood in Minnesota, and I even play/played hockey, face palm myself
it's funnier when you think he means an actual farmer
I'm definitely giving it to Basil.
That was the new look Minnesota North Stars until they moved the franchise to Dallas after the 1992-93 season.
I had a hat and I think a jersey. Grew up in Duluth, MN and Fargo, ND. My brother still had the N with the Star logo in a team trashcan he got one year. Looks brand new still.
Man im just happy they put real hockey players in the movie, and then my first favorite player!
No way! No freaking way!💥
Stevie ray Genoch Then the sequel featured other famous athletes, including Gretzky
Mike Modano is my cousin. I remember watching him play hockey in the street in Livonia Michigan in his teens when I was like 3. He joined the north stars, got kinda famous, and I didn't see him much after. And then I went and watched this in the theater and saw my cousin. It was really cool. No one in the fam even knew he was in it.
My best memory of him was actually around 89 and I was a kid playing videos games and he was already pretty close to a star, and he made me turn he it off to watch a hockey game. Lol
Really? I heard he's a farmer.
@@boltinabottle6307 he may be now. I don't follow him closely and haven't talked to him in 30 years. He doesn't keep in touch with the family. He's never been to a family reunion. I don't blame him though. We are kind of hicks. Lol
@@JohnBender1313 I was just kidding. The farmer thing was his line in the movie.
@@boltinabottle6307 oh ya! Lol I was gonna say he never really seemed like the farming type.
Ah the good old met center
There's my uncle basil
It would have made a lot more sense to have Neal Broten in place of Basil. Neal actually played pee-wees in Minnesota. Whereas Basil McRae grew up in Canada.
Basil is the better actor
I love it! Thanks for posting
I still wake up in the middle of the night in a sweat yelling NORM GREEN SUCKS!!
It wasn't Norm Green's fault. Blame the Metropolitan Sports Commission, who owned the Met, who never helped with renovations to the Met. The Gund Bros, who owned the team in the late 70s and 80s, had to spend their own money to put a few suites in. Norm Green spent $20 million of his own money renovating the Met.
Also, blame the fair-weather fans in the Twin Cities for not supporting the team better. The original owners almost folded the team in the late 70s because of horrible attendance. The league instead merged the North Stars with the equally troubled Cleveland Barons with the Gund Bros, who owned the Barons, taking ownership of the North Stars.
By the late 80s, attendance at games was in the toilet. In fact, the 89-90 season, the North Stars were dead last in attendance. Without decent support from the local fans & the Sports Commision, the Gunds made plans to move the North Stars to San Jose after the 89-90 season. The Star Tribune and Channel 5 News did a poll asking people if they'd care if the North Stars left. 60% said they didn't care.
The league did a deal allowing the Gunds the San Jose market and leave the Stars in Minnesota to new owners. 2 guys bought the team but were soon in money trouble, and they sold the team to Norm Green. The run to the finals and a buy 2 get 1 season ticket promo boosted for the remainder of the 90-91 & 91-92 season boosted attendance late in 90-91 season and into the next season. But with the promo ending for the 92-93 season and the team playing poorly, attendance dropped again. The league had enough and gave Norm Green permission to look for a different market.
@@danbratten3103 That's a great and objective summary. The MSC and the twin cities authorities kept on shutting the door on Green's face when he proposed several projects and improvements to make the franchise viable (connecting the Met Center to the Mall of America, renovating the old Civic Centre in St-Paul, etc). It's always easier to depict Green as a bad guy and claim all sorts of urban legends, fantasies and feeling better about it but he did everything he could to keep the team in Minnesota. I'm a original North Stars fan and moved my fandom south with the team. I was pissed when they moved but that ballsy move turned out to be a successful one and Minnesota finally woke up and built a great arena in downtown St-Paul for its new NHL franchise.
@mathieunicolet3774 thank you. My grandfather and my dad had season tickets for the first 19 seasons. I was going to games as a little kid in the early-mid 80s. I still cheer for the Stars. I tried to like the Wild but I couldn't do it.
Still miss the N* and the Met.
Ducks, this is Basil McBabushka and Mike Sykkuno.
Did anyone else used to think that was Tom Cruise on the right?
No.
A 6'3 Tom Cruise?
Lol I was a kid back then. I had no idea how tall he was
Basil's my cousin :3
Two things didn’t add up here. How did they know each other from PeeWee’s when McRae is from Canada and Bombay is from the US. And how can McRae give Bombay a tryout in the minors, he’s a player not an owner or GM
It's a Disney Movie, you're thinking too much
@@imaratspal all your base are belong to us
@@chocolateface8664 they could’ve played against each other in PeeWee tournaments. Being that Basil was in the NHL he’d have connections with GMs or owners of minor leagues
@@NoRdIqUeDiEhArD who can own a tree? Who can own a rock?
He should've put him in the starting lineup for the game later that day.
The NHL used to do a much better job of marketing its star players.
JUSTICE FOR JUICY!
I'm not super familiar with hockey but were Basil McRae & Mike Modano good?
Mike Modano is a Hall of Famer and member of the 500 goal club. Basil McRae was one of those role players that specialized in checking and fighting. Those kind of players are always fan favorites.
Oh man you should see madono play! He was one of the best!
So hands down, you bet he is!
Yes mike is a hall of famer nhl player
th-cam.com/video/OTH1ZZt2yM8/w-d-xo.html Here's Mike Modano for ya!
They were both benders
I remember you from peewee.. yeah right
In a recent Wild on 7th podcast, Mike Modano actually admitted that he swapped with Basil because he couldn't finish the lines th-cam.com/video/VL6zSzIj4cQ/w-d-xo.htmlsi=JngP13970v3Bvb0y&t=4057
Both babes 😻
Stevie ray Genoch is on TH-cam.com lol thanx
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