This is basically the story of the Winnipeg Jets. When the Jets left Winnipeg in 1996, the city nearly had a nervous breakdown. The team left at the end of the next season, to more emotional scenes. We were a city for a hundred years, some said, before we ever had a professional hockey team. The Jets are not just the last Canadian team left in the playoffs.

Source: National Post May 12, 2018 00:11 UTC