Donald Fehr trying to kill NHL, he already wounded the hell out of MLB. Its shame the bastard is from Kansas City.

Yeah, that's the reason why a Canadian team hasn't won :rolleyes:

It was the NHL's fault that a STACKED Canucks team choked away the series against an inferior Boston team.

The CBA and salary cap have actually helped the Canadian teams compete, but bad management has plagued all of them besides the Canucks.

Sure, there was good exciting games. No denying that but it's hard to enjoy a league when they over analyze concussions and hitting more then the game itself, and it's sickening to see all the stars from my country ( Canada ) end up on teams like LA, Boston, San Jose when there's a plethora of solid canadian squads. Here in Toronto, there's not one player from this city or province (ontario) that's on the team, it's all americans and russians. It pisses me off, I just remember how the league was back in the 90s and early 2000s and it isn't the same at all. Frankly, I don't care if there's another season until they get this all figured out and get the NHL back to what it used to be.

Clearly Boston was the better team, no denying that. Yeah they've helped them but it doesn't help in the long run, you really think NBC is going to broadcast two canadian teams playing eachother. Hell no, I even said it in the off season. If there is a season, Rangers are winning the cup.

Had Gronk. Picked up Dreesen. He did shit. Cut him this week and grabbed Pitta.

Other league I have Tamme. That drive sucked.

OOPS

Bettman is the one killing the NHL. He has almost 2 decades on Fehr in that respect. The players got a good deal last time. The owners started negotiations with a completely ridiculous offer, used the lockout as a bargaining chip, then tried playing hardball a second time by giving the players "a last chance at an 82 game season" ...then when the players countered, the NHL shut them down and walked out.

I haven't paid much attention since then, and I'm sure Fehr's not helping, but Bettman and the owners completely ****ed it up months ago.

There is like 12 Canadians on the Leafs lol.

I'm not sure why you even give a shit that some of the Canadian stars play on American teams.

Just kill the league and start a new one. Everyone in charge of the NHL is a colossal failure.

there's zero players from ontario on the leafs, i give a shit because the american teams just get better and the canadians get worse

Its funny how the league that could least afford an extended lockout is the one doing this.

If you've got half an hour to burn, here's Bettman's press conference. I'll give him credit - he seems genuinely pissed and actually does a reasonable job of explaining why.

http://watch.tsn.ca/nhl/clip822014#clip822014

My knowledge of the NHL and the history of this process and relationship is very minimal but I sat down and watched that out of curiosity.

Bettman is pretty much universally disliked and there are probably good reasons for that but as someone ignorant to his past dealings he comes off as very sincere and its hard not to side with his perspective here.

Bettman is a piece of shit. You need to do a little bit more research on him I think.

Tell me more. What do you think he was offbase with in that video.