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State unveils license plate for team that left 20 years ago
Source: Associated Press
State unveils license plate for team that left 20 years ago
Yesterday
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The Hartford Whalers left Connecticut 20 years ago, but their beloved logo will now appear on vehicles gliding along the state’s highways.
The Department of Motor Vehicles on Tuesday unveiled a new commemorative license plate that bears the former professional hockey team’s green-and-blue insignia. Forty-five dollars from the sale of each plate, which usually costs $60, will benefit a new infusion and dialysis center at the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center in Hartford.
“I ask the Whalers fans to get out there and purchase those license plates, because maybe then they will come back,” said Democratic Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman, giving a glimmer of hope to the handful of die-hard fans who showed up for Tuesday’s announcement in their old Whalers garb. One fan wore the “Pucky,” the whale mascot costume.
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Stafford Springs Rep. Kurt Vail, a Republican who worked to pass legislation last year creating the plate, said the strong, bipartisan support for the license plate concept indicates how much enthusiasm remains in Connecticut for the team, which became the Carolina Hurricanes in 1997. Vail credited the work of the team’s still-active booster club, which first proposed the idea about two-and-a-half years ago.
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Yesterday
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The Hartford Whalers left Connecticut 20 years ago, but their beloved logo will now appear on vehicles gliding along the state’s highways.
The Department of Motor Vehicles on Tuesday unveiled a new commemorative license plate that bears the former professional hockey team’s green-and-blue insignia. Forty-five dollars from the sale of each plate, which usually costs $60, will benefit a new infusion and dialysis center at the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center in Hartford.
“I ask the Whalers fans to get out there and purchase those license plates, because maybe then they will come back,” said Democratic Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman, giving a glimmer of hope to the handful of die-hard fans who showed up for Tuesday’s announcement in their old Whalers garb. One fan wore the “Pucky,” the whale mascot costume.
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Stafford Springs Rep. Kurt Vail, a Republican who worked to pass legislation last year creating the plate, said the strong, bipartisan support for the license plate concept indicates how much enthusiasm remains in Connecticut for the team, which became the Carolina Hurricanes in 1997. Vail credited the work of the team’s still-active booster club, which first proposed the idea about two-and-a-half years ago.
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Read more: https://apnews.com/0ade820b74f94cbda7876cfb338d2dc1/State-unveils-license-plate-for-team-that-left-20-years-ago
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