Bringing Hockey Home: A 20 Year History

I Miss Met Center It's Was Once Home To One Of Greater Hockey Teams In NHL Minnesota North Stars I will Never Forget Heart Break Losses Or Great Comeback Or Stanley Cup losses Met Center Was A Magical Place It's Where You Grew Up loving Hockey Met Center Is Gone But Memories Last Forever I Will Never Forget Why They Call This State Of Hockey Why I Call This Hockey Town USA Forever Hockey USA 🇺🇸

Minnesota sucks and will always suck

You could have shown a snow screen for 47 minutes with this history. Please, it's pathetic.

I love Norm Coleman. Is this St. Paul? Yes it is and we are not the step child and yes…Norm Green still sucks

Here in 2025. Still waiting for a cup State of Hockey…..

Great story.
The only cringe moment was hearing people talk about the corporate naming of the arena. I wish that as a country we would stop this. It's not a good thing to do.

When I was 13 years old back in 2012, me and my friends started to watch NHL. We only watched the Swedish league as we live in Sweden. So to decide our separate teams we all bought a cap only based on in to be a cool hat. When I got mine I saw it and thought, well this is my team now I guess. The hat I got was a Anaheim Ducks. With the years now passing I have never really felt comfortable with that wierd decision that a hat design was supposed to pick me a team. So I started to wonder, what is hockey to me. And I thought: Hockey to me is pondhockey, snow, flanellshirts, long winters and autumns.
Hockey is NOT California, beaches, warm and sunny weather.
So I looked of the different teams spread out in North America. And I immediately locked my eyes on the Wild. I started to look into the history of the community around the team and the culture in Minnesota. And what I found was..home.
This video gave me chills several times, struck me right in the heart.

I wish to someday visit the great city of Minneapolis & St Paul to watch the Wild’s!
Some might call me bandwagon or plastic fan, but I call myself a Wild’s fan 💚🤍

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wanna try bringing a Cup home too? a series win maybe. . . .

I remember walking up the grass hill to get in the Met Center doors as a kid.

I like to think every one of the six goals in the first Dallas game is a season of payback for there not being a Minnesota team

Being a Vikings fan living in Florida. I finally picked my NHL team. Go wild. Time to learn a lot.

As a Die Hard Rangers fan from Connecticut, my Dad went to college in Minnesota and was even a Season Ticket Holder for the North Stars for a couple of years. I was so young when the North Stars moved to Dallas. I always felt bad for Minnesota Natives when they lost their team. I was very happy when they were awarded the Wild! My Dad and I always dreamed of seeing the Rangers play in every Arena someday. As a kid we did a few Road games every couple of years. We started making this a full time yearly tradition of traveling in 2017 and it all began in Minnesota! Now we're more than halfway done! Minnesota has continued to be one of our top favorite Arenas so far!

Also known as The No Stars! Norm Green still sucks!

Thank you St. Paul mayor Norm Coleman AND original Wild team owner Bob Nieglie Jr.! And thank you to the leadership of our state, for bringing home hockey and the Minnesota Wild!💚💛❤💚💛❤

Norm Green still sucks!

For people that don't understand the North Stars in St. Paul; Locally, any game the Stars played, it was so popular that you'd hear and see it on TV and radio anywhere you were, even from people that weren't into in hockey. They were baked into the culture. The Wild bringing hockey back was obviously awkward, but the fans came around and embraced them almost immediately.

The state that elects weirdos, communists and socialists. And the team that has never accomplished anything in the playoffs and never will accomplish anything in the playoffs.

I miss seeing the Wild wearing those awesome Red jerseys

I remember when my dad took me to met center, us little people could afford tickets

They should've added darrick boogard in this video

Love how they paint the parise sutter trade. It ABSOLUTELY KILLED US!!!!!!! We have been working out from under that for the last 3 years!!!!! In the grand scheme of things the amount we paid to both players crippled the team and wasnt worth the return!

Politicians always talking about how they see someone else at a place with food. Whether it be a a breakfast or dinner. Weird.

I’d rather win a championship than celebrate mediocrity. But that’s right wing extremism.

The old Winnipeg Arena also refused to die during its implosion

hello fellow wild fans. big wild family from Saskatchewan my uncle coached josh harding. its not just Minnesota that loves you guys keep up the good work.

im a caps and canes fan but im starting to like the wild. i love the twin cities. very fun place

Those original wild jerseys are sick too. Their design is so unique and cool. You got the trees and sunrise all in the shape of a wolfs head howling.

This popped on in my recommended. And now I want Georgia hockey again

Many Dallas Stars fans were not happy with Neal Broten for what he did the first time the Wild played the Stars at the Xcel Energy Center

I can’t imagine Minnesota without a hockey team

My brother just recently passed from a very sudden and extremely fast case of Lou Garrick syndrome. As I watched this and the first image of the civic center brought back my childhood memories of my brother during state high school hockey tournaments. He became a legend and he never touched the ice. He made a costume wore face paint and he ran up, down and around that whole arena working the crowd. From our small town of Hibbing Mn the legend of the sheik rose and showed up year after year. He created such a stir and soon every hockey and football team had fans wearing face paint and a person in costume working the crowd….

17:33 you'll never hear Bettman say that when Québec City & Hartford get their teams back.

LETS GO BOLDY!!!

"honest to pete"

could you get more minnesotan

NORM STILL SUCKS !

At 17:48 we’re they chanting “Norm you suck!”

Go Dallas!

I miss the North Stars... 🏒

Too much enthusiasm from that individual leading the implosion

Why am I crying through half of this .. lol goddamn that’s a good movie y’all made. I was at every home playoff game in the conference final run , magical place! Beating Dallas 6 rip will always bring a tear to my eye what a night .. bring us a cup wild 😜💪

Gaborik was greedy

Does anyone know the song playing at the 21 min mark?

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My wonderful father took me to the 3rd ever game and since then we have been going to multiple games every year since. 22 year of memories in that building where I basically grew up. I love this team so much.

Canadian hockey fans understand how important hockey is for Minnesota. They deserve success.

To those who haven't been to the boys state hockey tournament. I challenge you to go. Out of this world experience.