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Wow... Great argumentative skills you got there...puckhead103 said:u must be 12 years old.....
Wow... Great argumentative skills you got there...puckhead103 said:u must be 12 years old.....
nyrmessier011 said:I'm laughing my face off at how all of you are so worked up by this.
nyrmessier011 said:Now, I was told that when he got the puck, he used it as a paperweight for a week until his secretary told him it was a hockey puck.
I for one... believe it.
Timmy said:Is this the same secretary that keeps putting me on hold until my call is dropped?
If so, I wouldn't believe a word of what she says, that b****.
Spongebob said:Isn't she the same one that uncovered the "record attendance sham"?
His kids were playing youth hockey before he joined the NHL, so I'm pretty sure he knew what a puck was.....nyrmessier011 said:A friend of mine from Chicago said that when Bettman took office he was sent an honorary puck from someone else in the league office. Now, I was told that when he got the puck, he used it as a paperweight for a week until his secretary told him it was a hockey puck.
I for one... believe it.
Can anyone confirm that they also heard this story?
What's funny, that we use facts in our arguements?WEEB said:This is so funny, all you people defending Bettman.
Read above - salaries started escalating when salary disclosure was introduced in 1990. How was he respsonsible for the relocation of those franchises when no local owner stepped up to buy the teams in question? Also remember that during this time, he was only a representative of the owners, and the plan to get a big US TV contract was not solely his idea. Besides, if you see all the other sports getting multi-million dollar TV deals, would you suggest that the people running hockey should sit on their asses and not try to get in on it?WEEB said:Salaries escalated like crazy during the old CBA, which was signed by Bettman, by the way. He relocated teams out of Winnipeg, Hartford and Quebec City, wanting to get a big US TV contract by having more teams throughout the USA, which he never got by the way.
So, the competition committee, made up of players and GMs, came up with the new rule changes, and even these can be blammed on Bettman.....What's next: "Oh look, it's raining....blame Bettman!"WEEB said:I know that you are all drinking the kool aid and listening to the mediatypes that are PAID to talk about how great the new myNHL is, but seriously, if you want good hockey look back at the 80s and early 90s. Would it be acceptable if, to increase scoring in baseball, the bases were moved from 90 feet to 80? Of course not, so why is it okay to add all kinds of gimmicks to the game of hockey?! Because some folks in the US don't like it? So what?! The only reason it wasn't economically viable anymore was because of this overexpansion which led to extra competition for players and thus higher salaries (good ole supply and demand), plus it diluted the level of play and made people turn it off.
Yes, before Salary disclosure.WEEB said:Fact is, the franchises were more profitable before Bettman entered the picture.
I remember following that thread. What a blast from the recent past. HA!Spongebob said:Isn't she the same one that uncovered the "record attendance sham"?Timmy said:Is this the same secretary that keeps putting me on hold until my call is dropped?
If so, I wouldn't believe a word of what she says, that b****.
MLB has actually changed the hieight of the mound on more than one occasion. But that is kind of beside the point, much like the muddleheaded post to which you were responding.jflory81 said:Major League Baseball changed the height of the pitching mound in 1969 to increase scoring
And your spelling makes me nauseous.nyrmessier011 said:ill clap for THAT. Just because he has somewhat fixed his mistakes by changing some things around doesn't mean that he is an ok commissioner now. Just because he says attendance is up, but doesnt point out the number of free tickets or childish ticket giveaways teams have concocted, doesn't mean we can all say "wow, attendance is up, it must be because of the great new rule changes, wow, thanks Gary." It seems like people just buy into rhetoric so much and it makes me nautious.
nyrmessier011 said:ill clap for THAT. Just because he has somewhat fixed his mistakes by changing some things around doesn't mean that he is an ok commissioner now. Just because he says attendance is up, but doesnt point out the number of free tickets or childish ticket giveaways teams have concocted, doesn't mean we can all say "wow, attendance is up, it must be because of the great new rule changes, wow, thanks Gary." It seems like people just buy into rhetoric so much and it makes me nautious.
gscarpenter2002 said:Sometime shortly after Bettman was appointed as commissioner, a few morons decided that, because Bettman is a 5 foot 5 New York lawyer, and he worked about 3 years for the NBA, he could not possibly be a "hockey man". He was a "basketball guy".
dannoabram said:GARY BETTMAN IS THE WORST THING TO HAPPEN TO THE NHL since they lost stars to the wha. i despise bettman
Me too. In addition, why couldn`t you use a honorary puck a a paperweight?MrMastodonFarm said:I can confirm that anyone who beleives that Gary Bettman doesn't know what a hockey puck is, is an idiot.
And the wheel goes round and round...richardsteele said:So let me get this straight. The main arguments that Gary Bettman is a great commissioner are as follows:
-Anyone who disagrees knows nothing about facts, and just made up everything they said, whereas anything a bettman supporter says is the gospel truth no matter what.
-Anyone who thinks bettman has done a bad job has only followed hockey for a short time and knows nothing about hockey in general. Nevermind the fact that the NHL is far less popular now then it was before bettman took over. Of course the experts on nhl history who have been following hockey forever can only remember how lousy the nhl was before the lockout (happened under bettman's rule) and that the nhl survived a year long work stoppage and improved attendance slightly.
-Gary Bettman IS a "hockey man" even though he has no experience in hockey before he got the NHL job, and obviously had a very weak grasp of the game, although admittedly it has gotten better. (of course, it should be impossible not to learn a few things on the job, he is the commissioner of the NHL)
-And besides that, there is no need for the leader of the National HOCKEY League to know anything about hockey. He is only there to market the game, and make money off the game. Why would he need to know anything about the game? Let alone the fact that he pushes his own rule changes to the owners all the time.
-And when all else fails, insult a bettman bashers spelling.
AdmiralPred said:And the wheel goes round and round...
Actually, I was going to include religion in my description of Bettman, but I decided to stay away from that. I am sure a few loonies are influenced by a tinge of anti-semitism, but only a very few, and i would have no evidence of that from the anti-Bettmanites who post here. I personally think it is more of the anti-nerdy, short New Yawk lawyer thing that is going on.I am Jack's Fish said:Not to mention at least three articles printed in Canada during the first lockout that made comments or alluded to Bettman's religion as being a possible negative...
Forgot the columnist, but he even suggested that at one point, nothing was going to happen because it was a particular holy day...
gscarpenter2002 said:I am sure a few loonies are influenced by a tinge of anti-semitism, but only a very few, and i would have no evidence of that from the anti-Bettmanites who post here. I personally think it is more of the anti-nerdy, short New Yawk lawyer thing that is going on.