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Lancer wrote:
Topper wrote:The southern expansion was done prior to Gary's tenure.
Point, but Buttman's ridiculous crusade to keep the Coyotes in Phoenix and his shameless propping up of untenable franchises down south says to me he has tied his ego to the southern franchises and his quest for the holy national TV deal. It was a money-driven mistake that he will deny till they put him in the ground.
Say what you will about southern expansion, and there are certainly plenty of issues that can be pointed out, the current World Junior US roster includes representation from more then 10 different states. If this is the direction US hockey is headed, some of these sunbelt areas may turn into stable hockey markets.

That roster, which is still dominated by northern states, also has players from California, Texas, and Florida on it. I don't think they've had a team with so much variety on it before.
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ukcanuck wrote:Half truths
LOL, white man speak with forked tongue.
ukcanuck wrote:...expansion had started before Bettman, but Bettman took it to another level with 6 new teams including Columbus, Nashville and Atlanta.
Ohio is in the south?

Nashville has very strong community support and is beginning to turn the corner.

Atlanta was horribly managed and should have folded instead if burdening the 'pig.
ukcanuck wrote:The revenue sharing under the old CBA was a misnomer. Equalization for the Canadian dollar helped Edmonton and Calgary and maybe Ottawa but Vancouver was never in serious trouble as a result of the exchange rate.
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ukcanuck wrote:The kind of revenue sharing the league needed to make the Cap and 50/ 50 split a fair deal has never been a serious part of the NHL's position...
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Topper wrote: Do you even know what you are taking about?
http://basketball.about.com/od/nba-vs-n ... gues_2.htm

I realise that the NFL has a TV contract and Gambling revenues that the NHL could only dream about, but then Salaries, Roster sizes would be an NHLPA wet dream... not to mention the costs of those monolithic size stadiums...

The point is the system in the NFL is a real attempt to level the financial playing field where the NHL's pays lip service.
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ukcanuck wrote:
Topper wrote: The southern expansion was done prior to Gary's tenure.
Half truths ...expansion had started before Bettman, but Bettman took it to another level with 6 new teams including Columbus, Nashville and Atlanta.
Actually there were only 4 expansion teams approved by Bettman: Columbus, Nashville, Atlanta, and Minnesota.

(in Dec 1992 Florida and Anaheim were awarded franchises for the 1993-94 season)

(Lord Bettman was not hired until February 1, 1993).

If Bettman "took it to another level" as you suggest then he was doing a great job

... considering he was handed an expansion mandate on Day One:
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/02/02/sport ... ioner.html

Bettman's mission is simple: Put a stop to labor unrest; sell the product in television's mainstream marketplace; change the violent image of the game; curb salary inflation; force enlightened self-interest on reluctant, old-fashioned owners; expand contacts with European developmental leagues and markets; settle the divisive issue of possible Olympic involvement, and help launch several new expansion teams.
(the part about "putting a stop to labor unrest" was thrown in there for PR reasons) :mex:
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Topper wrote:
ukcanuck wrote:...expansion had started before Bettman, but Bettman took it to another level with 6 new teams including Columbus, Nashville and Atlanta.
Ohio is in the south?
Well, compared to Canada, yes.

And from a Scandinavian perspective anything below Alaska, Yukon, Nunavat and the North West Territories would be the south.

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Lancer wrote: Bettman's trying to make the league idiot-proof so even the retards down south can make a go of it without even trying while the players shut their blue-collars pie-holes, thankful for the peanut crumbs they get for playing hockey.
As my link above indicates, Gary had a mandate upon being named commissioner to make the league "idiot-proof".

As for NHL players being paid "peanut crumbs"....

http://www.indexmundi.com/commodities/? ... ty=peanuts

According to my calculations, the average NHLer is being paid the equivalent of 1200 metric tons of peanuts per year.

It would take a caravan of dump trucks 10 miles long to carry that load according to my rough estimates.

That's alotta peanuts to play a game doncha think? :drink:
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Strangelove wrote: Actually there were only 4 expansion teams approved by Bettman: Columbus, Nashville, Atlanta, and Minnesota.

(in Dec 1992 Florida and Anaheim were awarded franchises for the 1993-94 season)

(Lord Bettman was not hired until February 1, 1993).
"Led by Lord Bettman, the league focused expansion and relocation efforts during the rest of the 1990s on the American South, working to expand the league's footprint across the country. The Nashville Predators (1998), Atlanta Thrashers (1999), Minnesota Wild (2000) and Columbus Blue Jackets (2000) completed this expansion period, bringing the NHL to 30 teams. In addition, four franchises relocated during the 1990s under Bettman: The Minnesota North Stars to Dallas (1993), the Quebec Nordiques to Denver (1995), the Winnipeg Jets to Phoenix (1996) and the Hartford Whalers to North Carolina (1997)."

OK technically 4 expansion teams but the "move south" is pretty much self evident and is a mixed bag at best, ( kind a sucky for Quebec and Winnipeg...)
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ukcanuck wrote: OK technically 4 expansion teams but the "move south" is pretty much self evident and is a mixed bag at best, ( kind a sucky for Quebec and Winnipeg...)
So you concur... Bettman is doing a very good job?

Wot with his mandate including "selling the product in television's mainstream (US) marketplace".

BTW, i figure he earns more money from July through September each year than you'll earn in your lifetime

(I'm on a math kick today). :D

Yeah, he pulls in Sidney Crosby money.

Sounds right, after all they're both superstars amirite? :mex:

Course Sid's career will undoubtedly be a lot shorter....
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ukcanuck you want a free market with no cap anyways.... why the fuck do you care about Winnipeg and Quebec getting screwed last time ? Talking out of both sides of your mouth if you think those teams can make a go of it for any length of time in a free market with no cap. Those teams were moved when the Northern Peso was worth 60 cents.
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ukcanuck wrote:
Lancer wrote:
Topper wrote:^ Back in September or October I was the one who suggested folding the Coyotes as a hardline bargaining tactic. I think the PA would fight tooth and nail against contraction and the job losses that would result.
I don't think anybody wants to see contraction - not when there are a number of other locations who would line up to take the team elsewhere.

Thing is, the league Buttman envisions is like Bizzaro-socialism - there is no incentive for the owners to work harder to improve their product on the ice or innovate to make their operations more viable because they're guaranteed playoff gate receipts or high draft picks. He's trying to make the league idiot-proof so even the retards down south can make a go of it without even trying while the players shut their blue-collars pie-holes, thankful for the peanut crumbs they get for playing hockey. Jacobs and company get to laugh their asses off all the way to the bank

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The peanut crumbs being relative to the peanut shells Walmart pays its greeters of course ...

How many penaut crumbs do you rake in as a greeter ? Enough to fill a mini cooper........a yugo ? Speak up man !
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Blob Mckenzie wrote:ukcanuck you want a free market with no cap anyways.... why the fuck do you care about Winnipeg and Quebec getting screwed last time ? Talking out of both sides of your mouth if you think those teams can make a go of it for any length of time in a free market with no cap. Those teams were moved when the Northern Peso was worth 60 cents.
I guess the reason I get a little bitter is cause when little kids had their piggy bamks out, they (Bettman) shrugged and said its business...Well the same sauce cooks the goose I figure. I don't see why shitty owners and GMs should be saved from themselves. free enterprise is free enterprise, and just so you don't continue to think i got my nose up the players ass, I don't care at all about the lost jobs. Like Doc says they are one percenters anyway.
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Strangelove wrote:As my link above indicates, Gary had a mandate upon being named commissioner to make the league "idiot-proof".

As for NHL players being paid "peanut crumbs"....

http://www.indexmundi.com/commodities/? ... ty=peanuts

According to my calculations, the average NHLer is being paid the equivalent of 1200 metric tons of peanuts per year.

It would take a caravan of dump trucks 10 miles long to carry that load according to my rough estimates.

That's alotta peanuts to play a game doncha think? :drink:
And peanut farmers receive nearly as much in Government subsidies as arena owners.
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Strangelove wrote:
ukcanuck wrote: OK technically 4 expansion teams but the "move south" is pretty much self evident and is a mixed bag at best, ( kind a sucky for Quebec and Winnipeg...)
So you concur... Bettman is doing a very good job?

Wot with his mandate including "selling the product in television's mainstream (US) marketplace".

BTW, i figure he earns more money from July through September each year than you'll earn in your lifetime

(I'm on a math kick today). :D

Yeah, he pulls in Sidney Crosby money.

Sounds right, after all they're both superstars amirite? :mex:

Course Sid's career will undoubtedly be a lot shorter....
Well I don't think anyone could make a silk purse out of a pigs ear when it comes to creating a TV market for hockey in some of those American markets so i'll cut him some slack there.
I also think moving into those southern markets was worth a try, I just wonder why he's sticking to Phoenix with such a death grip?
I also think that Hockey is a white man's game and Black and latino America will always be a hard sell...

As for Bettman himself... He's a smart mofo and must be an intimidating man to corral such heavy hitters as Jacobs and Wirtz ...he's got my respect that way... but then I think the same about Fehr too


lol hey maybe Jimmy and Billy will build a arena for Katz... is Billy even alive anymore...I hear beer bellies are bad for the heart?
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Hockey is a great success in Dallas.
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ukcanuck wrote: I also think that Hockey is a white man's game
There's a joke in there somewhere about overreacting to Canada's tough loss at the World Juniors yesterday.
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