American - Businessman | June 2, 1952 -
We encourage the growth of women's hockey.
Gary Bettman
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Our franchises have never been healthier. Our league, in terms of its economic footing, has never been healthier.
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Young people, particularly in their teens and 20s, are not consuming sports the way my generation did. They are doing lots of things; they are multitasking. They are getting downloads; they are getting alerts on their computers or on their cellphones, and they are consuming sports in a more real-time but less full-time basis.
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I would hope there would be a greater appreciation by casual sports fans of the incredible skill and passion of our players.
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We did the World Cup to relaunch our international efforts, and that served as a foundation.
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We'll have clinics and educational events and conferences to get more and more young players developing as hockey players.
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While players say they like the five-day break, they're also saying they don't like the compression that goes along with it, and that's something that is of great concern to us as well.
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None of our series are ever static in terms of the dates. We always have a range of flexibility to respond to whatever may or may not happen.
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We just want to see entertaining, exciting games, and we want the officials to do a good job.
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It's not about big markets or small markets. It's not about dominant teams or not. It's about the actual competition and how good the games are, how good the series turn out. That's what I think is the most important for fans.
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When you're in other time zones in other places, you don't get quite as much attention; you don't get quite as much visibility for the game, and you give up a lot to do it.
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Our sport probably has the best history and tradition of being engaged in international competition.
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