Playoffs. Who do you want to meet in the 1st round

[Sensfan5]

lets make playoffs first.

 

[aragorn]

A team we can physically dominate & wear them down over a 7 game series.

 

[SanderSen]

This defines a jinx thread

 

[darude]

The best thing that could ever happen to Bettmans reputation is a Winnipeg-Ottawa final

The media would have to print long articles on how he saved Ottawa and brought the Jets back and it would be the only nice things said about Gary apart from things about money, these articles would be about values and not many people like Bettmans values so it would completely change where his legacy is going which will only be about money

He cares about dollars and cents for the owners more than any legacy of "saving" teams. It'd also be a ridiculous sell to suggest he could rehabilitate his and the league's image when he's expanded to 4-5 southern US markets, two of which failed, in the time he's brought back the Jets (thanms to one of those failures) and suppressed or ignored all attempts to bring back the Nordiques.

He cares about growing the brand and clearly wants that to be his legacy. A cup final with two small market Canadian teams doesn't do that at all.