Agreed with Killion. If you want to be angry at somebody/thing over the loss of the Nordiques franchise, you certainly do not get angry at Eric and his family. You get angry with NHL presidents Clarence Campbell and John Ziegler and hardline owners like Harold Ballard (Leafs) and Paul Mooney (Bruins) who opposed any deal with the WHA until the bitter end in 1979, even though as far back as 1975 Bill Jennings of the Rangers and Ed Snider of the Flyers favoured this. Ballard, as well as the Montreal Canadiens management, opposed any further sharing of television coverage and revenue in Eastern Canada and made this quite well known to Molson Breweries/Molstar Communications, who basically owned Hockey Night in Canada at the time, causing the Nordiques to miss out on a great deal of such potential revenue.
Molson's took legal action against Carling O'Keefe for their sponsorship of CTV games between 1983 and 1987, which featured a good number of Quebec Nordiques games and improved their TV revenues and financial situation. Molson eventually bought out Carling and the CTV games ceased soon afterward.
When you also consider the NHL's likely refusal to ape what the NFL did with both merging with the AFL and also the sharing of television revenue, you have a very dismal portrait of the Nordiques, along with other franchises, being vulnerable due to benign neglect and that it was only a matter of time where US based interests would want to buy such a franchise and relocate it. Aubut most likely saw Lindros alone as a few extra million in his pocket and that the drive-bys in the media would also play on French-English issues, so he certainly played this into an emotional storm. You can also get angry with someone like Peter Pocklington, who basically took great advantage of paying Wayne Gretzky, Paul Coffey, Mark Messier, and the rest of that group far less than what they would have been paid elsewhere in the NHL or very definitely in the NFL, NBA, or MLB. Be also angry with Alan Eagleson, whose failure to confront these dynamics as well as his own criminal, corrupt behaviour during his years running the NHLPA further added to this greedy and corroded situation involving the league.