sawchuk1971
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- Jun 16, 2011
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people thought bettman was bad....
i think john ziegler was just as bad as bettman....
he had a sinister relationship with of good ol' "dollar bill" wirtz....and alan eagleson..
i remember back in the '88 playoffs, he was a no show when the refs went on strike after
the incident where jim schoenfeld called out ref don koharski about loving donuts...
he also allowed the nhl to sign with sportchannel instead of espn....espn was in more
households than sportschannel...
but one good thing about his was belief that the nhl was a niche sports, popular in the northeast
and in canada.....however this belief was not popular among other owners, who wanted the nhl
to get larger tv footprint in the US...
this is why the owners overwhelming supported bettman because he would've delivered in getting
that mythical, but lucrative US TV contract....where ziegler had failed in that attempt....
i think john ziegler was just as bad as bettman....
he had a sinister relationship with of good ol' "dollar bill" wirtz....and alan eagleson..
i remember back in the '88 playoffs, he was a no show when the refs went on strike after
the incident where jim schoenfeld called out ref don koharski about loving donuts...
he also allowed the nhl to sign with sportchannel instead of espn....espn was in more
households than sportschannel...
but one good thing about his was belief that the nhl was a niche sports, popular in the northeast
and in canada.....however this belief was not popular among other owners, who wanted the nhl
to get larger tv footprint in the US...
this is why the owners overwhelming supported bettman because he would've delivered in getting
that mythical, but lucrative US TV contract....where ziegler had failed in that attempt....