Gary Bettman Quotes
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We're not anti-Olympics, we're anti-disruption to the season.
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We'll have clinics and educational events and conferences to get more and more young players developing as hockey players.
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If you want to know how I feel, I'll summarize it in one word - terrible.
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I don't really think about having a retrospective on my high-school years. It's not something that, from a positive or a negative standpoint, is a driving force in my life.
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There are always going to be critics... and I have always had a rule: no matter how good the commentary is, or how bad the commentary is, it's more important that you do what you think is right.
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If you're a sports fan, it is really cool when you see the best-on-best for hockey at the Olympics.
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What our fans want, what our fans believe, what our fans are interested in is why we are what we are. But, nevertheless, ultimately we have to do the things that we believe are essential for the long-term health of the game, of the league, and of all of our franchises.
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We don't tell the officials to change the standard for the playoffs, but as we all know, time and space tends to evaporate very quickly in a playoff game; there tends to be a lot more physicality and a lot more adjustments in the course of a series.
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We are not giving up on the Coyotes in the Greater Phoenix Area... The team has got a number of options and is going to pursue them, so nobody should think that team is moving other than out of Glendale.
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My rooting interest these days is first and foremost competitive hockey, and secondly in officials not making a mistake.
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I couldn't do what I do day-in and day-out if I didn't love the game.
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Doing jersey advertising for the World Cup is not in the same universe as putting advertising on NHL sweaters.
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Market size, particularly when you're dealing with major media markets, has an impact in terms of gathering attention.
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While players say they like the five-day break, they're also saying they don't like the compression that goes along with it, and that's something that is of great concern to us as well.
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All have used the economic opportunity of a new arena project to transform their cities into the future.
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It takes two sides to make a deal, two sides to negotiate and two sides to make it go bad.
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NHL clubs have not wanted to go to the Olympics, and we have been saying that for months if not years.
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It's not about big markets or small markets. It's not about dominant teams or not. It's about the actual competition and how good the games are, how good the series turn out. That's what I think is the most important for fans.