Llama19
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To quote:
"On if the NHL would return to the Olympics in the future: "Two responses. One: [IOC President] Thomas Bach said if you don't go to Korea, you can't come to Beijing. Well, OK. Thank you. The second is, if the Winter Olympics comes back to North America, I'm not saying we'd go, but it's a different equation."
On adding a team to the Western Conference to balance the conferences with 16 teams each: "You don't expand just to be symmetrical."
On if there's a shortlist of potential cities: "We're not considering anybody. There are places that on an ongoing basis that express an interest in having a team. We listen, but we're not doing anything with it."
"I don't like work stoppages, but you do what you've got to do. You look at the way the game is being played -- competitive balance, the health of the league, how much players are making -- we needed a new system. I'm always quizzical of why a work stoppage gets laid at management. At the end of the day, the players, 12 years ago, 13 years ago, whatever it was, got what they would've gotten without the work stoppage. At the end of the day, we had to have a new system. As Arthur Levitt, who studied our economics at the time said, we were on the treadmill to oblivion."
Source: www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/21400777
"On if the NHL would return to the Olympics in the future: "Two responses. One: [IOC President] Thomas Bach said if you don't go to Korea, you can't come to Beijing. Well, OK. Thank you. The second is, if the Winter Olympics comes back to North America, I'm not saying we'd go, but it's a different equation."
On adding a team to the Western Conference to balance the conferences with 16 teams each: "You don't expand just to be symmetrical."
On if there's a shortlist of potential cities: "We're not considering anybody. There are places that on an ongoing basis that express an interest in having a team. We listen, but we're not doing anything with it."
"I don't like work stoppages, but you do what you've got to do. You look at the way the game is being played -- competitive balance, the health of the league, how much players are making -- we needed a new system. I'm always quizzical of why a work stoppage gets laid at management. At the end of the day, the players, 12 years ago, 13 years ago, whatever it was, got what they would've gotten without the work stoppage. At the end of the day, we had to have a new system. As Arthur Levitt, who studied our economics at the time said, we were on the treadmill to oblivion."
Source: www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/21400777