But this year, Bettman came prepared with a plan to try and get the Vancouver Canucks crowd on his side. It worked… but not for the reason he planned. Gary Bettman is arriving at the podium in Vancouver. Gary Bettman says he has something that will change the mood. Gary Bettman announces that Daniel and Henrik Sedin will have their jerseys retired next season by the Vancouver Canucks.
The man is so universally hated that even a city like Nashville, whose hockey team would not exist were it not for him, can still find cause to boo him. So this begs the question, why do we boo Gary Bettman? One can point to the new hockey team in Las Vegas, a city whose temperature can reach above forty degrees Celsius on a normal summer day.
In , Bettman was appointed as the commissioner of the National Hockey League NHL by the owners of the league based on a mandate of expansion. Ever since the beginning of his tenure he has pursued an aggressive often misguided expansion into non-traditional hockey markets. These aggressive moves also come at the expense of the traditional, loyal Canadian markets. Standing just over five feet tall is the biggest, and most powerful, man in the world of hockey. Why do hockey fans hate Gary Bettman?
You might not get an answer from a few of them at all. Some reasons may be his own fault, others may not. NHL commissioner Gary Bettman. This might be the most common answer.
Strikes and lockouts were nothing new in professional sports or a unique creation by Bettman. The NHL has had three lockouts under Bettman, including the only time in North American professional sports history an entire season was cancelled back in Under Bettman, lockouts have sadly become almost predictable and commonplace.
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