Quebec City is ready for the NHL to comeback for the first time since the Nordiques went to Colorado and became the Avalanche after the 1994-95 season and the City and the Province have both dug deep into their pockets and each found 200 million dollars for the new arena in Quebec City for the next NHL team to call Quebec City home. The shovel has not come close to getting into the ground as the politicians are still figuring out how much it will take to environmental friendly clean the land that the new arena will be built on and if a team needs to relocated after this season they will still be ready for them @ Colisée Pepsi which seems to need a little fixing up where the Quebec City Remparts play right now.
They are already putting pieces in place as Quebecor which is an all-sport station in Quebec has already started to find announcers for the team which will be airing on Quebecor to go up against the Montreal Canadiens on french tsn (RDS) and it looks like the reason why Patrick Roy (the head coach of the Remparts) did not get the job as the Canadiens' head coach because he is waiting for the Nordiques to comeback to become the next head coach.
The NHL I believe want to keep the american teams in the US and with the Coyotes they would like to keep them in Phoenix and if they can not do that they would rather be the only Seattle winter sport's team as the first NHL or NBA team back in Seattle will do very well but with both the NBA will be the Seattle choice for sports.
Quebec City will get a team but it might take a while for a team to come to town
Tom Mehegan
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