Videotron Center

Last week I went to Quebec city. It's about a 4.5 hours from my home. Because I am retired from the Canadian Armed Forces, I can booked cheap room on base. I reserved a room in Valcartier which is about half an hour from Quebec. At $35 per night for a room you can't go wrong. It was not the Holiday Inn but there was a fridge, TV and a toilet. There was a shower share by 8 rooms.

My main reason to go was to attend a hockey game in the bright new Videotron center and to say goodby to the colisée which will be destroy. 

 

I was not really going for the hockey, I don't even know any players in both team. But I am confident one day, the Nordiques will be back in the National Hockey League and they will play in this building.

I was born in Montmorency which is 15 minutes from Quebec city. Growing up as a teenager, I worked at the old Colisée de Québec. I had a very important job, I had to go up and down the stairs to sell chips and peanuts. One of the benefit of my job: I could watch all the games and all the shows for free. And of course I would get paid commission for the items I sold.

So the Nordiques and the Rempart (Junior major Hockey) were a big part of my life. Even when I moved away from Quebec, I kept watching my team. I was heart broken when the Nordiques moved to Colorado. It was so bad that I stopped completely watching hockey. I even boycott the companies that had rudely sold my team.

After over 10 years, living in Gatineau there was a Junior major Hockey team and I started to attended few games and was hooked back.

Now with the talk of a hockey team coming back to Quebec I'm so excited and now I've seen where they will play!