Word: bettman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that's the sound of the NHL season being cut down. Although NHL commissioner Gary Bettman hasn't canceled the 1994-95 campaign yet, the owners yesterday gave him authority to cancel the season if it comes down to a point where 50 games will not be played...
Hmmm. Maybe it was a Gary Bettman-Bob Goodenow thing, you know, "If we can't play hockey, nobody will...
...million network-television contract with Fox, still finds itself in the penalty box. The regular season did not commence as scheduled; the first puck may not drop for weeks. Or months. League officials were not idle, however. They were reportedly busy hiring two bodyguards to protect N.H.L. commissioner Gary Bettman, perhaps from churlish players who in the past have proved adept at rearranging facial characteristics with sticks. Sweet reason seemed in short supply. "The owners are ready for a battle," says Boston Bruins president Harry Sinden. "There's more solidarity this time around...
Which makes this winter all the more bleak. Guys named Fehr, Ravitch. Usery, Bettman and Goodenow have been throwing words left and right across the front pages of the New York Times quicker than Nolan Ryan fastballs, but there's nary a scrap for the hungry dogs around the edge of the big league table to munch...
...then Gary Bettman postpones the start of the season by two weeks. Then another two. Perhaps indefinitely. And Farrell, at the peak of his powers, may never know how close to the big-time...