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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
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.
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I'm generally pro-Bettman and think people work hard to find fault or read things into his statements. This isn't something he's good at though, and part of it comes from having to be pretty darn careful when he speaks. He can't go too far in saying "we need to address this" without people saying "so you admit the NHL was at fault".
The NHL could benefit from a well spoken PR person. Not Bettman or Daley. And I think maybe Bettman's time has run, just because of age. But if he's just replaced by Daley I think that's a step backward.