Well said, Rob. IMHO Bettman has dragged the NHL downhill ever since he took over as commissioner. His "vision" has changed the very nature of the game by trying to attract new fans in non-traditional markets, and it's been a miserable failure. Here in the Great White North, viewers are abandoning the iconclastic "Hockey Night In Canada" in droves because the game is no longer the one we grew up with ... the closest thing we had to a national religion. The shootout, 3-on-3 All-Star game, the second referee, idiotic rule changes ... the list goes on and on. I was a hardcore fan for 50 years, but now I find it almost impossible to watch a game all the way through.
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