Jan 10
We live in an Apology Culture, so Gary Bettman had to say he was sorry to the players, the NHL’s “partners”* and the fans in announcing the ratification of the new Collective Bargaining Agreement on Wednesday. And then because we live in Apology Culture, half the hockey world was declaring it wasn’t good enough, while …
Dec 11
Do you hate Gary Bettman? Good, because that’s his job. Loather-in-chief. A sponge for your abhorrence, a deflector shield for whomever that hatred should be actually directed towards. It’s a rite of passage for a National Hockey League fan to blame every problem great or miniscule on Bettman because it feels right; Bettman is to …
Dec 02
Can you imagine how soon this labour stoppage would have been settled if Gary Bettman and Donald Fehr were allowed to punch one another’s heads clean off their bodies? Super quick, probably. (Granted, if the new CBA was decided this way, Bettman and Fehr probably wouldn’t be the guys doing the deciding. And Georges Laraque …
Nov 22
Jaymes Hall is a 41-year-old resident of Lancaster, Pa. He rocks a thick goatee, dark-rimmed glasses and a well-worn hat, looking very much like a guy you’d expect to see sitting in the cheap seats at a hockey game. Hall is, in fact, a hockey fan — of the Philadelphia Flyers — and a frustrated …
Nov 19
Hello, this is a feature that will run through the entire season and aims to recap the weekend’s events and boils those events down to one admittedly superficial fact or stupid opinion about each team. Feel free to complain about it. When it comes to where the blame for this lockout ultimately lies, and where …
Nov 17
Trending Topics is a column that looks at the week in hockey, occasionally according to Twitter. If you’re only going to comment to say how stupid Twitter is, why not just go have a good cry for the slow, sad death of your dear internet instead? So it seems as though we’re back to all-around …
Oct 05
Trending Topics is a column that looks at the week in hockey, occasionally according to Twitter. If you’re only going to comment to say how stupid Twitter is, why not just go have a good cry for the slow, sad death of your dear internet instead? You can say that a lot of things were …
Sep 28
How much do you know about Gary Bettman? You know doubt are aware that he came to the NHL from the NBA in 1993, hired as the first commissioner in League history. That he was born in Queens and went to Cornell. That he pushed for NHL expansion into Southern U.S. markets, while he pushed …
Sep 01
Gary Bettman tries his damnedest to look sympathetic.
As things progress, it’s becomingly increasing clear that CBA negotiations are a lot like depression or dementia: there are good days and bad days.
By all accounts, today was a bad day.
Aug 20
One of NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman’s most remarkable attributes, along with his mutant ability to absorb colossal booing without losing his grin, is the way he rarely offers ammunition to his opponents. He sticks to his messages like Tom Cruise climbing that tower in Dubai. While others can describe the taste of their own sole, …
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