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Gary Bettman
and i i stumbled onto
uh...
a column
uh... dungeon do jr not canada dot com earlier this week
and it made me think wow that's a really good question
so i wanted to bring it up and
on why i would love to know what your
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would be
if uh...
polls online or any uh... indication
but this past week
n_h_l_ commissioner gary bettman
Gary Bettman
twenty years as head of the national hockey league
so john pose the question
what you put
gary batman into the hockey hall of fame
just a simple yes or no
and then you know you can make your argument either way
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i don't think there's any doubt
but gary bettman does get into the hall of fame some point
there's no question in my mind that he will be inducted
because think of where the leave was when he took over
and where it is now
league revenues so boat
four hundred million dollars a season
last year lead revenues three billion dollars a season
that system stared chill increases in it
to go
into the billions of dollars over that period of time
they're more teams in the league now
that means
more money being generated you've got more players employed
yet more sponsors as part of the league now
they needed twenty years ago
think about that
twenty years ago
early nineties
six more change now
and i don't see how you say
campania
i think there's any question
at some point
he gets into the hockey hall of fame
uh... yeah well i can see that the three law coats would work against you in
terms of whether or not you're considering putting
the commissioner in the hockey hall of fame
Gary Bettman
we think
i think you have to put him in
because of
in the builder category what he's done
is grow the game
more teams more markets
greater exposure
i mean took an awful lot of heat
about television for a while
but you've got a national television contract now with n_b_c_ for the next
ten years
bank they sold themselves short i think they're going to regret that at the end
of that
the way some of the television deals have been negotiated now with other
sports another teens
it's a pretty substantial deal
and even
when you think about the game itself
remember in those after all four oh five
stricter rules enforcement
open up the game tsm eight it faster
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i think maybe you uh...
the baby and have to say you know
there's a positive
i think you have to put him in
i don't see how
you say no
he doesn't go ahead
because of all that has been accomplished
builder category
in terms of growing the game
certainly done that
billions of dollars of revenue now
he gets hammered
by everyone
with anything that
somebody
doesn't like
base of the leak
not the owners
but he's the face of the week
so he gets
pummeled in the media
fans take potshots at 'em all the time everybody just now
disliked
he's not the warmest guy
not the friendliest guy
don't you think
twenty years
of service
and growing the game to its current level
is gary tuchman hockey hall-of-famer
i think you have to at some point
and if you're making the argument no
okay
go ahead make it
via twitter
beautiful whatever you wanna make that argument go ahead
Gary Bettman
in the hall of fame
guys like
harold ballard in the hall of fame
who
again a lot of money
well certainly had their faults as well too in terms of
running their teams running their franchises and
not necessarily thinking in
the broader interest in the larger interests of the game
but i think if you're thinking
strictly
for what they've done for the game
growing the game to a new level
making it bigger
generating more money
generating more interest
parading more coverage
they're still the
still the negatives of course
there's still that
easy target
that hockey is they're still that
reputation
of being the
the national fight lead
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how much are anything fixes are cures that except i'm and knowledge
an education
more and more people
expose the game to more people which has happened
then they become more knowledgeable they can become fans
making have a better understanding of what the game is and what it's all about
snot just about
dropping a gloves in fighting all the time
get rid of fighting that would help us but
but in terms of
what he's done for the lead and what he's done for the game
i'd make the argument that you put in the hall of fame
funny all of the growth
more teams
and i know we gets a bad rap in canada especially
he's also
done a lot to try to helps canadian teams and franchises when they were
struggling
western teens
auto are
coats i give you that
whether or not you can
make the case and justified that he's
personally responsible for all of them
and i don't think you can
you've had three la coyotes
and disruptions
soul
i don't know that
Gary Bettman
that's bad
but does he
but that is that disqualify him
from becoming a member of the hockey all fame one-day are working on a slower on
i'm really not sure that he
care is one way or the other
i think it
that he would be deserving
if you're considering
other candidates at some point
would you consider
carry that meant has a hockey offering a one day
because of the way he's grown league revenues
to such levels
i know he's not entirely responsible but
the way it works is it stick jaded from the top down
or vision coverage
there's been big steps in that direction
there's still a long way to go and i'm glad i'm hyper critical about the lead
and and their television sometimes
the coverage and and the way it works
and i still win
for tenure deal
for t_v_ coverage is good
all think it's the be all and all and i don't think it's is necessarily is great
as
some have made it out to be
but it's a big step from where they work
still a lot of
improvements that need to be made
in terms of the reputation of the game
and you can always have
greater exposure better exposure
more sponsors we've got more teams now
we more money than you ever had
coming in
and
once this
walkout situation in a new c_d_ a comes to pass
things will settle down and return to normal again
you can debate about how long it'll take but it'll be back to normal
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year for the lead
and i think when you could look back
and try to considerate rationally
that after twenty years of services commissioner
adding more teams
employing more players
spreading the game of putting it in more cities
i think you can say that
gary batman's probably were the of induction into the hockey hall of fame
ivan
i think it's inevitable
Gary Bettman
daryl
that
just
huh
you
makes the call
thanks for the call terry
i line
mine would be very surprised at the stanley cup wasn't uh... as a brutally
available uh... or even more available than that uh... has been over the
previous years
in terms of uh... television coverage
mind might be very surprised that but i don't
i think that yes
commissioner definitely
twenty years
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a bigger game
faster game better game
owed still got
a lot of questions
there still a lot of things that need to be adjusted in terms of improving the
game
from player safety standpoint
eliminating
the hooking clutching an grabbing that went on a few years ago
was a huge step in the right direction
and
you know i think you gotta make ah...
i think you make a case that carried that man is worthy of being in the
hockey all thing
after growing the league
the way he's done
absolutely i think that's uh...
that's worth it
three lockouts
being head of the labor three lockouts uh... that's
now d_c_-three locketts in your own threes lockouts and
three-strikes-you're-out i don't think so
you happen to be they had but
he was the uh...
he was operating the way the the owners wanted him to
we'll see what happens with the latest round of c_d_-eight stuff that's going
on
the uh...
disqualification of interest boat that's gonna start today and continue with the
players for the next five days
giving them up until
january second to notify the leak that
they're no longer a
collective body
but in the meantime we're ready to sit down and meet and be part of
negotiations
leaks filed a lawsuit
unfair labor practice
but we're ready to sit down and negotiate
argosy any uh...
compromise
that's what uh...
were waiting for
because we haven't had enough of it s point that's why we don't have a deal
there's
there's something else that were kinda missing out on to
to kind of an idea i had in terms of this whole c_d_a_ negotiation
and something that we could be missing out on something it could be really cool
really good for the leak
we'll talk about that the final segment
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