Word: bettman
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...GARY BETTMAN, National Hockey League commissioner, rejecting a contract offer from the players' union and instituting a lockout that could force the cancellation of the upcoming season...
...this was any other profession, such statements might be grounds for a restraining order. But this is the NHL. Gary Bettman doesn’t process PPOs. So, Moore was forced to listen to that and know that someone was going to chase him down...
Cleary was the Crimson's Gordie Howe, Scotty Bowman and Gary Bettman wrapped up in one package. Harvard should not have waited decades to pay him this honor. It should not have taken a man of such immense stature to break the 150-year-old policy of not honoring individual achievement...
...Stanley Cup. For all of hockey's numerous virtues, it needs to reconsider the length of its regular season. The extended playoff format already renders most of the previous play irrelevant, so knocking off 10 games couldn't hurt. Of course, I would also like Commissioner Gary Bettman to knock off at least 5 teams. Sorry, Nashville...
Hockey is slowly becoming an American game. The paradigm Bettman is cultivating is not the kid from the pond, but the middle class tyke from suburbia, playing ball hockey on rollerblades, and stepping onto the ice for the first time in junior high school or (gasp) high school...