Gary Bettman Is An Excellent Commissioner, Financial Advisor
Gary Bettman, the well-loved and vastly-respected commissioner of the National Hockey League, is known for making great decisions. He is also known for his leadership and vision.
In the vision category comes this little tidbit from ESPN.com's Scott Burnside:
Canadian billionaire Jim Balsillie has accused NHL commissioner Gary Bettman of forcing the owner of the Nashville Predators to break off discussions about the sale of the team to Balsillie...
According to the article, Bettman prefers the Predators be sold to a group interested in moving the team from Nashville to Kansas City, another hot bed of hockey interest just like Nashville.
While Balsillie already has a deal with Copps Coliseum in Hamilton, Ontario, not to mention 14 thousand deposits on season tickets, Bettman seems to prefer trading one lousy market for another. But of course he does! He's Gary Bettman! He never makes a decision that isn't absolutely perfect for the league!
Why waste time expanding the league back into Canada, a country that loves its hockey more than it loves its own children? Why waste time having financially successful teams?
I think Gary Bettman should be NHL commissioner forever. He's a genius.
6 comments:
Hopefully your whole post is sarcastic...
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Gary Bettman's talents are wasted on the NHL. He should take over the war in Iraq instead. Then he could move the Green Zone to the Florida Everglades and have naked mud wrestling gators decide the fate of the free world!
"Bettman Is An Excellent Commissioner" is as friggin likely as "The New York Rangers Getting Two of the Three Top Free Agents"! this year...
Wait...Lord, you Ramble Rouser!
The Dark Ranger
I dig "anonymous"!
In Bettman's manifesto of expanding the game in the US, it makes sense that he wants a team in KC. However, while it's true that the love of hockey rivals the love of our children in Canada, I still think that moving to Hamilton is a bad idea. Hamilton barely had 1200 per game for the AHL Calder Cup Champion Bulldogs this season. Hockey in Hamilton is a fad.
Teebz, I think 14,000 season ticket depositors would disagree with you.
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