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Originally Posted by neo45
Am I the only one who thinks Bettman handled the press conference pretty well and it’s other people that are making fools of themselves?
Tara Sloane with the laughable cherry pick quote of the year
Allan Walsh using a serious assault as a shield to try and settle his feud with Bettman with deafening silence on anything Donald Fehr related?
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I thought it was typical Bettman, for the most part.
When Westhead asked about offering lifetime counselling to the Michigan player abused by Aldrich, he gave a stupid lawyering answer when he could’ve just said “yeah, we’d absolutely be open to that, it’s something that is best left discussed in private among the affected parties, but it’s the right thing to do and I won’t comment on it further in this format.”
Which is kind of what he said, but he did it in that weird, non-human way that Gary says everything, so it came off as unfeeling.
Bettman and Daly also seemed fixated on the idea that what this problem was really lacking was a hotline. That seemed… insufficient.
They don’t do well when they have to make things up on the fly. They do really well when they take six months to come up with a plan.
Which is what this situation deserves. No commissioner is going to come in and “Change the culture of hockey”, and if anyone actually could manage to get a few things through the culture’s thick skull, it would probably be Bettman.