Rabid Ranger
2 is better than one
I can't believe he's been commissioner for almost 30 years. I guess he's doing something right......
Please welcome to the stage your new Commissioner Pierre McGuire.
Agreed. I can understand in Canada with what he did to Winnipeg and Quebec. But Winnipeg’s mistake has been repaired so there’s just Quebec now. Why people in Chicago, dallas or st-louis would boo him, I don’t really understand.
The things I'll fault Bettman on are:
Screwing over Winnipeg and Quebec
Propping up a failed organization in the Coyotes with NHL money for what seems like forever
Encouraging/threatening cities to subsidize billionaires arenas
The numerous lockouts
Piss poor marketing
But at the end of the day I would never wish ill harm on him. I really do hope he's ok.
Look up his leaked emails and then let me know how you feel about him.
People get older...and generally not healthier... It's life
I think he is just waiting for Seattle to come into NHL and negotiate the new US TV deal, than he will retire.
I never got why people boo him, he has done a great job, I like him.
Look up his leaked emails and then let me know how you feel about him.
He's has his faults, but he's a genius compared to his predecessor. The booing started with NBA fans booing Stern in NYC, then spread to other sports. It's become a rite of passage for commissioners, and if you are not being booed it's almost more worrying than if you are.
Brian BurkeI wonder who the incumbent commissioner is going to be?
You do realize the players are at as much fault for the lockout as the owners are?I don't care for Bettman just because of the lockouts and the potential for another upcoming lockout. I just want hockey to be back every year. I dont wanna switch to watching Poker again if it locks out again
I never got why people boo him, he has done a great job, I like him.
Ya, he sure defended parros and did not acknowledge the errors of that dept. It's a tough call to suspend or not and you cant please all fans as he stated, but parros needs support. Clearly some mistakes there.He needs to smoke more marijuana and less parros pole.
That's a pretty significant misrepresenation and misunderstanding of Bettman's role as commissioner.A huge percentage of the people that boo him don't have a clue what he does and often blame him for things he has zero control over. Bettman is routinely booed and hated for things his bosses do, not him.
So many fans seem to think the Commissioner is all powerful and don't have a clue that he reports to and does the bidding of the Board of Directors who employ him and its them, not Bettman that made the decisions. Bettman doesn't even have a vote let alone control over those things.