Gary Bettman Quotes
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Having to respond to things that are made up or untrue tends to be a waste of time.
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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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I never rule anything in or out; life can surprise you.
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The issue of how the game is played is something that's constantly being reviewed internally with the Players' Association, with the general managers, and it's something that we continue to monitor on a daily basis.
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The fact is, I view part of what I do is, if necessary, on difficult issues, be the lightning rod.
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Let's put it this way: I would consider my skiing ability to be far superior to my skating ability. And, in fact, my 10-year-old grandson, who's a AAA squirt, can skate circles around me.
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I think it's very difficult to generalize as to why, in a particular league or a particular industry, somebody has or has not come out. We certainly don't want a player to come out for our sake. It should be what's right for him and something that he has to be comfortable with.
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From as early as I can remember, I was focused on becoming a lawyer.
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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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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.
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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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We did the World Cup to relaunch our international efforts, and that served as a foundation.
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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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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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All have used the economic opportunity of a new arena project to transform their cities into the future.
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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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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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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.