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Originally Posted by Eric Vail
Bettman was hired to make as much money as he can for the NHL Owners. he has done a masterful job of that. He hasn't done anything to really help hockey in Canada. Somehow he was powerless to do anything for Canadian teams, but he has all the resources to save Arizona over and over.
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Many posters have chimed in and explained to you a lot of the things Bettman did for Canadian teams. Did you read any of it?
As for Arizona, it's blatantly obvious why he wasn't letting that franchise move. At present there are 1.15 billion reasons shared among 30 NHL owners.
The only franchise relocation since the salary cap was Atlanta moving to Winnipeg. That was an easy one to allow, because it did not take away a viable expansion market. Nobody was paying $500 million like Vegas or $650 million like Seattle to put a team in Winnipeg. Bettman's mission was to make it impossible for anybody to get a team in a prime new market without paying through the nose to the whole league. Mission accomplished.
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If it wasn't for the salary cap, many teams would have folded - not just Canadian teams.
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So what? Are you figuring that it doesn't count unless it's good for Canadians and bad for everyone else?
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I'm not sure why you think Justin Trudeau has something to do with this issue.
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You are the one who thinks Bettman is to blame for everything that happened while he was commissioner. By your logic, Trudeau is to blame for everything that has happened while he was PM.