No I have relatives up there though they don't care for hockey
I know the North Stars played in dump of a stadium and the team was pretty crappy most of 80's only making playoffs so much because of NHL divisional format and fact Norris was worst division in hockey
The Met Center wasn't a dump but the St Paul Civic Center was much nicer for hockey
The North Stars also were clueless with PR - a prime example was replacing a popular local organist in 1987 with Nancy Faust who they flew in from Chicago for games. That didn't go over well with the locals.