When Gary Bettman calls out the opening of the 2016 NHL draft, he may very well have two new teams to announce as participants. The Las Vegas whoevers, and the polarizing Quebec Nordiques. One will be a franchise riddled with gambling related issues, the other will likely rekindle a rivalry that has been hibernating and waiting to show the NHL what a true rivalry should look like.
Growing up as a devoted Habs fan in Notre-Dame de Grace (NDG), I couldn’t have cared less about the Hartford Whalers, I despised the Boston Bruins, but of all of the teams in the NHL, I only truly hated one: the Quebec Nordiques.