This is getting ridiculous. All these owners wanted parity, they got it. Now teams are complaining that they have to spend money. I don't think the NHL is a stomping ground for smart businessmen these days. The old adage goes you have to spend money to make money. If you can't make money off your investment get rid of it to someone who can do something with it. And this is where Bettman is a total fool. Instead of taking the NHL into a market where 14,000 season tickets were sold before an official announcement of a team was made(Hamilton) he would much rather veto the deal and keep the team in a place where they actually had to hold "Save the Team" rallies(Nashville) Where they did not even come close to Hamilton numbers. And if thats not dumb enough he wants to expand the league to places like Kansas City(where even it is hard to keep the baseball team afloat), Las Vegas(is intriguing, but totally far fecthed because you have to get rid of NHL gambling, which is not happening). The only reasonable place where the NHL could possibly work right now is Hamilton, Winnipeg, Portland to an extent, and a throw out in Green Bay. Green Bay has a building they could possibly put a team in and people dig hockey in Wisconsin from what I hear. Gary has to look at this as simple economics when picking where to go. The only thing he is worried about is completing his master plan of making the NHL a big market in a little big top. Well, you have had 20+ years to do this gary and what do you have to show? A 30 team league where half are barely holding on. If he would be a smart business man instead of a hard headed my way or the highway prick this stuff could be figured out in a second.
