Cleveland Barons: Where Did They Go?
Guiseppe Medhurst
2025-04-30 21:50:21
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Following the 1977-78 season the Barons merged with another franchise, the Minnesota North Stars, that was also struggling financially. No other major North American sports team has ceased operations since then. Following the merger, the North Stars remained in Minnesota until the end of the 1992-93 season and appeared in two Stanley Cup Finals. Following the '92-93 season the North Stars relocated to Dallas and became the Stars, where they still exist today.
Eliezer Huel
2025-04-29 20:09:57
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The Gunds took over the ownership of the Minnesota North Stars and merged the Barons with the team.
A hasty dive into a first season, incompetence, and an ugly 47-87-26 record over two seasons was the recipe for a complete laughable travesty.
The Cleveland Barons are a cautionary tale when incompetent business men don’t count the cost and lose millions of dollars.
Norval Vandervort
2025-04-22 17:00:39
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The Cleveland Barons were a team in the National Hockey League. They merged with the Minnesota North Stars and are the most recent team in the four major leagues to cease operations.
After just two seasons, they merged with the Minnesota North Stars (now the Dallas Stars). Fearing that two franchises were on the verge of folding, the league granted approval on June 14, 1978 for the two teams to merge.
Vergie Heidenreich
2025-04-09 09:26:38
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Majority owner Mel Swig was persuaded by minority owner Gordon Gund to move their financially struggling team, the California Golden Seals, to Gund’s hometown of Cleveland. Despite the fact that the team was named to honor the highly successful AHL Cleveland Barons (1937-1973), the team arrived with little other identity, publicity, and marketing, and was ultimately doomed to failure when just over 8,900 fans showed up for their home opener.
It was after the 1977 season that the Barons merged with the also financially strapped Minnesota North Stars, who are today’s Dallas Stars.
Jessika Reinger
2025-04-09 07:41:24
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Mileti then moved the Barons to Jacksonville, FL, in Jan. 1973.
The NHL Barons moved hurriedly, which didn't allow the development of a season ticket base, and played their home games in the Richfield Coliseum, which greatly diminished walk-up attendance. The team struggled to make payroll in early 1977, and Swig sold out to the Gunds. The Barons fared no better in 1977-78, at one point embarking on a fifteen game winless streak, and following that season, they were merged with the Minnesota North Stars (now the Dallas Stars).
Dallas Kautzer
2025-04-09 06:37:51
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That’s an easy call in hindsight of course, but back then there was reason to believe that an NHL team such as the floundering California Golden Seals could make it in Cleveland. After all, this was a city that had successfully hosted the first incarnation of the Barons, an AHL team that won nine Calder Cups between 1937 and 1973 and came within a whisker of becoming the first NHL expansion team, twice. But the Barons happened, even if they never should have relocated from the Bay Area just weeks before the 1976 season.
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