Quebec Nordiques were a professional ice hockey team based in Quebec City.
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16 Facts About Quebec Nordiques
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The Quebec Nordiques played in the World Hockey Association and the National Hockey League .
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Quebec Nordiques formed as one of the original World Hockey Association teams in 1972.
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The Quebec Nordiques were unable to defend their title and fell in the playoffs to the New England Whalers.
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The Quebec Nordiques would be placed in the Adams Division of the Wales Conference.
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The following season, led by Peter Stastny's 109-point Calder Memorial Trophy-winning performance, the Quebec Nordiques made the NHL playoffs for the first time, but fell in the best-of-five opening round in five games to the Philadelphia Flyers.
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However, due to the playoff structure during most of the 1980s, the Quebec Nordiques faced the near-certainty of having to get past either the Montreal Canadiens or Boston Bruins–or both–to make it to the conference finals.
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The Quebec Nordiques finished with 91 points, at the time their highest point total as an NHL team.
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In that same season, when Quebec Nordiques hosted Rendez-Vous '87, an alteration of the All-Star Game to include the Soviet national team, a costumed mascot, Badaboum—a fuzzy, roly-poly blue creature—began entertaining fans at the Colisee with his bizarre dance routines.
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The Quebec Nordiques finished last in their division – the first of five straight years of finishing at the bottom of the Adams Division – and missed the playoffs for the first time in eight years.
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In 1993, the NHL renamed their conferences and divisions to better reflect geography; the Nordiques would be situated in the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference for their last two seasons of play in Quebec.
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Quebec Nordiques City was by far the smallest market in the NHL; it was the second-smallest major-league city in North America, behind only Green Bay, Wisconsin.
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However, Premier Jacques Parizeau turned the request down, as few in Quebec Nordiques were willing to be seen as subsidizing a hockey club that paid multimillion-dollar salaries.
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Finally in May 1995, shortly after the Quebec Nordiques were eliminated from the playoffs, Aubut announced the acceptance an offer from COMSAT Entertainment Group, owner of the National Basketball Association's Denver Nuggets to move the team to Denver, where it was renamed the Colorado Avalanche.
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The Quebec Nordiques would have abandoned the blue, white, and red palette they had worn throughout their history in favour of a teal, black, and navy scheme.
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Quebec Nordiques games were televised locally by CFAP 2 from 1988 to 1994.
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