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Jore · 04-03-2017, 02:29 PM

not surprised, bettman represents the owners, who are only after their own interests (melnyk's comments especially honest in this case). the nhl clearly does not care about the sport, only the version of the sport that it can sell. also clear it doesn't care about its fans apart from how much ticket and merchandise revenue they bring in.

i mean, this isn't to say that ioc is some virtuous organization either. greed runs the show in both cases, but at least the ioc offered to cover insurance/etc.

as others have said, it's often hard to be a fan of a team in this league

04-03-2017, 02:29 PM	#49
Jore First Line Centre Join Date: Feb 2007 Exp:	not surprised, bettman represents the owners, who are only after their own interests (melnyk's comments especially honest in this case). the nhl clearly does not care about the sport, only the version of the sport that it can sell. also clear it doesn't care about its fans apart from how much ticket and merchandise revenue they bring in. i mean, this isn't to say that ioc is some virtuous organization either. greed runs the show in both cases, but at least the ioc offered to cover insurance/etc. as others have said, it's often hard to be a fan of a team in this league Last edited by Jore; 04-03-2017 at 02:32 PM.