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Originally Posted by Vulcan
LOL. One thing you don't understand is when you are pointing the finger at someone else you are pointing 4 fingers at yourself. I just can't imagine what kind of a hell you live in to be so angry.
Gary had the power to call the season. It's in black and white but you try to interpret it to fit your own story.
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What in the world???
Like Resolute has pointed out, this is a new story that you are promoting in your case against Bettman, but it ABSOLUTELY IS NOT what you were called out on on the last page of this thread.
Yesterday, Resolute offered the following as a retort to your suggestion that Bettman was bestowed all the authority necessary to bring the NHLPA to heel in the 1994/95 CBA negotiation:
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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
...No, Bettman did not have "All the control he needed" in 1994. The guy was two years into the job at that time. A job where his predecessors for the previous seven decades were ownership puppets. But that loss in 1994-95 is what convinced the owners to give him his veto for 2004-05...
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To which you responded:
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Originally Posted by Vulcan
Back to throwing personal potshots again, are we. Bettman had veto power in the 94/95 lockout and to say otherwise is more of your revisionist history.
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All I have ever challenged in this thread is the last rather critical statement, because if you are wrong, then it runs completely against your insistence that Bettman had "all the control he needed" in 1994. Without the veto, he clearly did not.
Since you cannot demonstrate that he had veto powers in 1994/95, and since it has been soundly demonstrated that he did not, your entire critique of Bettman's performance in the first CBA negotiation of his tenure is in serious jeopardy.