The other sports at least try to address the issue. Hernandez got fired, the NFL admits when mistakes happen. The NHL had written proof of Colin Campbell's misconduct and he's still in the same position. Sutherland has never been held accountable for openly disgracing the sport. The NHL simply doesn't seem to care about the integrity of the sport and it's at a point where the refs are endangering player safety through criminal negligence.
Somehow, three decades of damage from Bettman's anti-Canadian bias needs to be undone though.
There is another solution to bring the Canadian teams back to the top of the NHL:
Canadian TV networks may not have demanded it as a condition of keeping the league on Canadian national TV, but the country can certainly require it by law.
Don't you get it? I'm trying to save the NHL, everyone else seems to want it ruined.I'll give you one thing. You're at least consistent. It's a terrible idea for all the reasons we've already discussed (and no reason to re-hash), but at least it's consistent.
Double post, but this is the funniest thing about this entire belief system. If there was truly a bias and conspiracy against Canadian teams and ownership, then we would basically still be in the late 70's set-up of the league where TOR, MTL, and VAN specifically would be fighting tooth and nail for the broadcast money that comes from being the only games in town that HNIC broadcasts and telling EDM, WPG and CGY to pound sand. But we're not, because of one simple reality - the larger the team pool is, the more revenue grows, especially through national broadcasting rights packages.
There is no anti-Canadian bias. If Bettman did what he did because he had an agenda against Canada, the Whalers would still be in Hartford. The Whalers aren't Canadian. So why did they move?
To be fair, to "let Canada have the NHL" isn't just making it like it was before Bettman. That's during the Frank Calder era. The 1924 expansion added the first US team, the Bruins, as well as the Maroons in Montreal.
for fifty years the nhl only had two Canadian teams and those two teams dis everything it could to prevent a third one so that the tv money wouldn’t been split up. It took the threat of an antitrust lawsuit to add Vancouver in the league
But this again goes back to the idea that Bettman is somehow anti-Canadian, which is patently false unless you also believe every owner is also anti-Canadian. What you're asking is for the league to put their finger on the scale and let a Canadian team win, to reward a team that isn't actually *the best* all because they exist north of the 49th. If a team -- any team -- wants to win the Cup, they need to build towards that.
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ROFL no the F they don't. The NHL needs the money to become a respectable top 4 league and they can't do that if they lock themselves out of several of the most lucrative markets in North America which happen to be south of the Mason-Dixon line.
You'll refer to Cansdians collectively as Canuckleheads but this particular one you don't even though he himself deserves it???
All this at the expense of Canadian team success. Which is a huge reason why the next commissioner should be Canadian so that they can find ways to tip the balance of power back to the Canadian teams in line with the slogan "Make the NHL Great Again".
I'm gonna stop you here.
