All Entries Tagged With: "Gary Bettman"
Despite Success, Rangers Not Settling For Status Quo
There’s no denying that it’s been a rough go as a Rangers fan since that surreal June night eighteen years ago when all of the heartbreak of 54 years was erased the moment Commissioner Gary Bettman told Captain Mark Messier to come on over and get the Stanley Cup. Since falling to the Philadelphia Flyers [...]
It’s Almost Official: Red Wings To Host Leafs In 2013 Winter Classic
To quote Kent Dorfman, aka Flounder from the classic movie Animal House when the Deltas crashed the Homecoming parade, “Oh, boy is this great!”. It’s the worst-kept secret in the NHL, but the cat will be officially be out of the bag, most likely during the Detroit Red Wings’ six-game homestand next month, that they [...]
The True Meaning Of NHL Realignment
On Monday evening, live from the Pebble Beach Board Of Governors meetings, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman announced that the league’s brain trust had agreed in principle on a new realignment plan to be used beginning with the 2012-’12 season. Under the new plan, the league will be divided into four “conferences”, two featuring seven teams [...]
IS IT FEAR & LOATHING ON LONG ISLAND? BD on the August 1st Vote and Endorsement
Editors Note: B.D. Gallof has not been seen since Sunday am, when his pictures from his ipad were uploaded to his Facebook page of him smoking a cigar and drinking a bottle of Whiskey. Late tonight we received an email from him asking us to place this up on the site. It has not been [...]
The Southeast Unleashed – June 2011 Edition
The NHL’s Southeast Division was formed in 1998 as a part of the Eastern Conference due to expansion. It has had two Stanley Cup winning teams, the 2004 Tampa Bay Lightning and the 2006 Carolina Hurricanes. Each month we will update you on the relevant news and notes of all five Southeast Division teams. Florida [...]
The NHL’s New TV Contract: What it means for you (and why it’s really a dud).
The big news in the hockey world today is that of the NHL’s new contract with NBC Universal. Over the next ten years, the NHL seems to be drastically expanding its media profile via NBC and its various networks and platforms. Of course, this is being presented as something great for hockey. However, like anything [...]
Naming rights for future Quebec arena sold to Videotron (Quebecor); and Guy Lafleur’s farewell game
Quebec City has announced its partner for the development of its new multi-purpose NHL arena that will be built in the upcoming years, and it is Montreal-based media conglomerate Quebecor. The new arena will be named the Videotron amphitheatre. Mayor Regis Labeaume and Quebecor CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau held a news conference in Quebec City [...]
Backchecking: 10 Questions
It’s amazing how much convenient amnesia exists in the NHL — its players, announcers, executives and of course — its fans. With that in mind, I offer these ten questions for debate with some supporting follow-up question and editorial. 1) Can someone explain to and remind some of the fans and media types like Paul [...]
The Nordiques Nation will invade Nassau Coliseum
Tomorrow, Saturday December 11, 2010, more than 1,100 hockey fans will invade Nassau Coliseum for the match-up between the surging Atlanta Thrashers and the lowly New York Islanders in Long Island. The raucous fans are taking chartered buses from Quebec City down to New York to send a message to the rest of the NHL [...]
Gary Bettman- Take Back Control of Your League
“We’ve got to protect players from themselves,” Anderson said, “and we’re going to move aggressively to do so. On Sunday, I felt profoundly disturbed. We’ve got to hold our players to a higher accountability and get them to understand that they may be facing a suspension, and not only a fine, for some [...]
Isles, Press and Fans Surprised by Two Game Suspension? Don’t Be
I have to tell you, I might be the only Isles fan not up in arms over Wisniewski being bounced for two games for making his head bounce simulating fellatio at a Columbus Day matinee full of ladies, gents, kids…and Gary Bettman. You really expected one game? The NHL under Bettman’s rule has made every [...]
Ottawa Senators announce training camp roster and will host 2012 All-Star game
The Ottawa Senators announced earlier today the 50-player roster for the upcoming 2010-11 training camp that will start Friday, September 17. The invited players includes five goaltenders, 15 defencemen and 30 forwards. Players will report for medicals and physical fitness tests at Scotiabank Place on Friday morning and then the on-ice sessions will beging Saturday, September [...]
Is Quebec City ready to welcome back the Nordiques? Part Trois
There is a bug buzz in town these days as things start to move faster towards the return of an NHL franchise back in Quebec City. Last week, Radio hosts Denis Gravel and Jerome Landry of CHOI Radio X, launched a Quebec Nordiques fan club called Nordiques Nation, a Website dedicated to show political authorities [...]
Another can of worms: Arbitrator upholds rejection of Kovalchuk mega-deal
Arbitrator Richard Bloch ruled earlier this evening that the 17-year, $102-million (U.S.) contract signed by 27-year old star winger Ilya Kovalchuk to stay with New Jersey in July is invalid, upholding what the NHL originally declared last month. While the Devils indicated they will go back to the drawing board to renegotiate an acceptable deal with Kovalchuk, the [...]
Should hockey world fear Fehr if he becomes next NHLPA leader?
“A strike is a last resort. I want to emphasize that. No one wants to play more than the players do.” – Donald Fehr, July 28, 1994. Fourteen nights later, after all Major League Baseball games of August 11 were played, the players went on strike, never to return to complete what was turning out to [...]
Is Quebec City ready to welcome back the Nordiques? Part Deux
Things have recently picked up on the potential return of the Nordiques to Quebec City. Last week, I wrote about the current economic situation in La Vieille Capitale regarding the potential return of professional hockey in Quebec City Is Quebec City ready to welcome back the Nordiques? At the same time, the Globe and Mail [...]
Comeuppance: Charles Wang and NY Met’s Wilpon ARE Talking
Early-morning on a bathroom jaunt, I checked my phone messages, and there is was…Newsday was spoon-fed that Charles Wang has indeed been talking to Wilpon. Of course, you get the obligatory commentor on the site acting like any Isles blogger has this in their side pocket, and did not run errant for days/weeks/months…me questioning THN’s [...]
Canadiens tie series; overcome biased officiating and where’s Crosby?
Despite being badly outplayed and outshot (26-9) during the first 40 minutes, the Montreal Canadiens overcame a 2-1 deficit in the third period by dominating the Penguins and scoring two goals in a 1:33 span. Maxim Lapierre, the best forward on the ice for Montreal, tied the game at 2-2 with a quick wrap-around goal [...]
D’AMATO FINALLY ATTACKS LIGHTHOUSE: Entering The Dirty Endgame
On the LI Herald page is the face of Joe Pesci Alphonse D’Amato, the fierce specter that has been connected to the political frictions of the Lighthouse due to a falling out between he and Charles Wang years ago. Newsday, in their one fair and well-done piece, alluded that the falling out stemmed from Wang’s [...]
Canada Wants A Stanley Cup! (but when will they get it?)
The Stanley Cup hasn’t graced Canadian soil in 17 years, when will that drought end and will dollar-parity propel the NHL to increase the number of teams in Canada and their odds of bringing the Cup back North of 60?
