I think it's fairly clear that playing hockey isn't the same as playing football.
“I think it's fairly clear that playing hockey isn't the same as playing football.”
— Gary Bettman · Hockey
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I think it's fairly clear that playing hockey isn't the same as playing football.
“I think it's fairly clear that playing hockey isn't the same as playing football.”
— Gary Bettman · Hockey
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“I think it's fairly clear that playing hockey isn't the same as playing football.”
“The Olympics are very proprietary about letting others promote and market what's going on, so we shut down for 17 days, and they don't let us do a whole lot in return for giving our players to them. We don't get compensated, and we've never looked for compensation.”
“The fact is, I view part of what I do is, if necessary, on difficult issues, be the lightning rod.”
“We're certainly not in position to expand into the East. We've been very candid and up front that if, in fact, we go through an expansion process, the world will know about it.”
“At least two or three of the leagues in Europe over the last few months have said to us, 'We hope you go to the Olympics,' and I looked at them, and I said, 'Why?' and they go, 'Because if you don't send NHL players, we have to send our players, and that's way too disruptive to our season.'”
“I believe that the Greater Phoenix Area is a terrific sports market; it's a terrific hockey market.”
“My wife and I go to five or six hockey games in the offseason. It's our favorite thing to do.”
“When you win in Montreal, it's the best place in the world to play hockey.”
“To succeed in hockey, you need teamwork.”
“Usually when people eat sliders they're really hard because they're so small, so they're like hockey pucks.”
“I grew up in Wisconsin loving hockey. I mean, I started when I was three years old on skates.”
“The skill set for hockey is so specific to skating and if you haven't been skating as a kid it's impossible to play - and I wasn't a skater.”