Team USA - Olympic Hockey

[ar15meister]

Being the national heritage and all why would he have sent the team to Phoenix?

Bettman's plan for the NHL is trying to grow the game in the USA because there are 300 million people as opposed to 30 million.

 

[Tommy Gun]

Bettman's plan for the NHL is trying to grow the game in the USA because there are 300 million people as opposed to 30 million.

I wouldn't think he could just relocate a team at his whim...was there a problem in Winnipeg? Did they not support the team?

 

[Airpacker]

Being the national heritage and all why would he have sent the team to Phoenix?

Because bettman is a slimy little POS who has a hardon for Canada.

 

[Airpacker]

I wouldn't think he could just relocate a team at his whim...was there a problem in Winnipeg? Did they not support the team?

Not the first time he has used his position to scuttle a deal on this side of the border.

Bettman's interference in deals is legendary here. Why do you think there are temas in HOT southern states that lose millions upon millions when they could be here making millions?

Surely thats not in the best interest of the teams nor the NHL but its the Bettman reality.
The past owner of them Coyotes and Jim Basilli, founder R.I.M. had a deal to buy the team for twice its actual value. Bettman stepped in and made absolutely sure that deal would not happen. A "group" of investors from Hamilton Ontario put a very large offer on the table and Bettman again scuttled the deal to keep a money losing team in a money losing arena in Az.

 

[PARADOX]

And what does that tell you Peter? Maybe that even American pro hockey teams KNOW where the good players are to be found You folks have 10 times our population yet YOUR teams hire Hosers to play for them and pay them millions in USD.
Its OUR game ya know. When was the last time you heard the kids in your neighbourhood yell out "car!" and then shuffle their nets off the road to allow a car to pass? Its a fixation. Its a tradition.Its dam nearly genetic.
The NHL isn't an American thing, its a hockey thing. The players association ( union) offices are here in Toronto too.

Well.. that was SOME time ago.. But I love hockey. (among a few other things) I used to play looooong ... I mean loooooong time ago. The time when "Bauer" scates were all steel. LMAO..
I have mixed feeling with Pro's playing in the Olympics. But that's the way it is. If US had to loose to anyone.. it's good to be you darn Canuts. :cheers2:
Off subject... I have a tough time when a guy from Brazil, Itally or England playing in a pro US soccer team... or in the Euro league. (or any other sport) and then playing for a different Country at the world cup or the Olympics. I understand the $ thing.. but I question the morality of it. Just my .02
But as far as you darn "eiieye " guys.... :willy_nilly: Canada and the US are like close cousins.
Congrats cous.

 

[TCEd]

I'm 64 and still playing in a over 50 league and I do remember my son and his friends shouting "car' and moving the nets. Where we now live the kids all play every Sunday evening at the end of the steet in a cul-de-sac.

That Canada-USA game was the best thing that's happened to hockey in years. We watched it in a sports bar in Playa de Carmen, Mexico with a bunch of Canadians. It was amazing how thrilled they were with the win.
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