By : Marty Henwood 69 days 16 hours 42 minutes ago.
Maybe, instead of schmoozing in Detroit or wherever else he found himself Thursday night, Gary Bettman should have flown into Toronto to hear Jim Balsillie speak at the Canadian Press Annual Dinner.
Chances are he may have left with a clue.
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By : Marty Henwood 80 days 4 hours 2 minutes ago.
If you happen to hold down an extremely high-profile position — say, for instance, Commissioner of the National Hockey League — should you not know what the hell you are talking about when you go on a radio program in the league's largest market?
So one would think.
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By : Marty Henwood 84 days 19 hours 51 minutes ago.
Just because it's Friday and I am looking for any way to screw up the climactic day to your week, let me break it to you that, yes, there is a new provision in the NHL rulebook than bans the twirling of an octopus — or, in its plural forum, octopi — over one's head.
Really, would I jest? This story, uh, has legs to it. It's right there, in black and white blood.
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By : Marty Henwood 108 days 11 hours 54 minutes ago.
Really, it was just a matter of time.
If you didn't see this coming, well, you're about to.
Leave it to the Sports Business Journal to break the news to us that the NHL will unveil virtual ads in this spring's playoffs, transforming the glass around the rink into the yellow pages, much like the ads that annoy the heck out of us from behind home plate during the World Series.
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By : Marty Henwood 109 days 2 hours 28 minutes ago.
This isn't about a so-called hockey border war. Never has been.
Contrary to my U.S. colleague Paul Kukla calling out some unnamed Canadian writers last week for their perceived anti-American bias when it comes to the NHL, it has never been about the Us vs. Them mentality.
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