Category: Gary Bettman
Tuesday, January 15th, 2013
For those that are still paying attention and still care, the NHL will be back in a matter of days. Beyond the 11th hour, the league and its players came to an agreement on a new 10-year collective bargaining agreement last week, granting hockey fans a 48-game schedule and a ...
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Thursday, December 20th, 2012
Another day, another slate of cancelled NHL games. The lockout continues to drag on and there doesn't seem to be a great deal of hope involved. We could be looking at losing a whole season. Meanwhile, players have started voting on whether to grant the players' association's executive board the ...
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Monday, November 26th, 2012
The NHL lockout continues with games through Dec. 14 canceled late last week and the All-Star Game getting the ax, too. Fans are concerned, because meetings between the league and its players are few and far between. NHL deputy commissioner Billy Daly wasn't thrilled with the players' latest proposal, while ...
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Friday, November 9th, 2012
The NHL lockout continues, with November and the Winter Classic both wiped out. The two parties have been engaged in plenty of talks lately, which is a good sign, but there isn't a lot of room left for snags. They have to get this thing going soon, otherwise Sidney Crosby ...
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Thursday, October 6th, 2011
Gary Bettman is set to embark on another season as NHL commissioner, but this one will be different than ever before. There is a new sheriff in town, Brendan Shanahan, who is fully in charge of reviewing and assessing punishment in the league's new discipline policy for checking. Then there ...
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Friday, June 17th, 2011
It must have been a bittersweet moment for NHL commissioner, Gary Bettman, after game seven of the Stanley Cup Finals having watched his sport go the distance on the biggest stage. The Boston Bruins were the first team to win three separate game seven's in the postseason as they came ...
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Friday, June 11th, 2010
The NHL just recently capped off what was an exciting 2009-2010 season with a great Stanley Cup Finals. The Chicago Blackhawks prevailed over the Philadelphia Flyers in six games and captured their first Stanley Cup since 1961. It was revealed after the Blackhawks clinched the title with an overtime victory ...
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
There has been a lot of buzz the last few days around the USA vs. Canada hockey game that was played Sunday afternoon. The TV ratings in the US were better than any NBA Finals or World Series game in the past 10 years. The Canadians came into the game ...
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Friday, October 2nd, 2009
Gary Bettman became the NHL’s first commissioner in February of 1993. Before that, Gary was a senior vice-president and general counsel to the NBA. The owners had hired him with the mandate of selling the game to the US market, complete prior expansion plans and to end labor unrest. I ...
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Thursday, January 1st, 2009
The Winter Classic was played on New Year's Day at Wrigley Field. The spectators were sure treated to an entertaining game, as the Detroit Red Wings beat the Chicago Blackhawks 6-4. On New Year's Eve, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman joined WDFN to preview the game.
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