http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2011/06/20/bettman-says-atlanta-franchise-%e2%80%9cwasn%e2%80%99t-economically-viable%e2%80%9d/ ProHockeyTalk on NBCSports.com Sat, 25 May 2013 17:04:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2011/06/20/bettman-says-atlanta-franchise-%e2%80%9cwasn%e2%80%99t-economically-viable%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-12907 Wed, 22 Jun 2011 00:00:56 +0000 http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=40882#comment-12907 Couldn’t agree more. I think his best days are behind him. Listening to the Cup presentations in Chicago last year and then in V this year and the boos he got (on a protracted basis) was downright embarrassing and listening to Colin Campbell, his former director of discipline or whatever his title was, was another embarrassment. These guys don’t get it.

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]]> http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2011/06/20/bettman-says-atlanta-franchise-%e2%80%9cwasn%e2%80%99t-economically-viable%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-12900 Tue, 21 Jun 2011 19:49:15 +0000 http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=40882#comment-12900 I just read Bettman’s interview. He said a whole lotta nothin’. Betcha he would have liked to have told the interviewer: “No matter how bad the ownership was, if more people had bought tickets, you’d still have a team.”

]]> http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2011/06/20/bettman-says-atlanta-franchise-%e2%80%9cwasn%e2%80%99t-economically-viable%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-12887 Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:37:11 +0000 http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=40882#comment-12887 I think Bettman is still holding out hope for a winter classic in University of Phoenix Stadium.

]]> http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2011/06/20/bettman-says-atlanta-franchise-%e2%80%9cwasn%e2%80%99t-economically-viable%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-12884 Tue, 21 Jun 2011 10:19:17 +0000 http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=40882#comment-12884 Playing ice hockey in the desert is NOT normal. You golf in the desert, you retire in the desert, you watch baseball in the desert, but you don’t play ice hockey in the desert!

]]> http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2011/06/20/bettman-says-atlanta-franchise-%e2%80%9cwasn%e2%80%99t-economically-viable%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-12883 Tue, 21 Jun 2011 05:56:00 +0000 http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=40882#comment-12883 While I do agree with the above comment … my question is this … what makes Phoenix “economically viable”? I agree with not fghting hard for atlanta given the circumstances but why are we fighting so hard for phoenix?

]]> http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2011/06/20/bettman-says-atlanta-franchise-%e2%80%9cwasn%e2%80%99t-economically-viable%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-12879 Tue, 21 Jun 2011 01:14:34 +0000 http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=40882#comment-12879 Gary Bettman is an idiot and I would like to see him step down for the good of the game. His head is in his ass.

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