Well there were only 24 teams in the league when The Bettman became commish
... but he was hired with a mandate to expand and most of that was already in the works.
Gary Bettman has done everything asked of him including making the NHL more popular in the US.
A lesser man wouldn't have been as successful at completing the monumental tasks assigned to him.
Without Gary, there's a good chance the Leaves would have bought a Cup or three a long time ago.
So yeah, I will always be grateful to him for bringing in the salary cap and crushing the players "union".
I also loved the way he demolished Ron MacLean in that televised national debate.
Having said all that, I'm in favour of giving him a damn good fruiting as Dan has suggested!
(followed by a jolly good riot of course)
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