dimon225...post 2...Ya its Bettman, he was #2 lawyer for the NBA, then the NHL grabs him, the Jew B#@#$ but he is in it for the team owners not the players. I shouldn't say this but it is how lots of fans feel, If there were no gun laws in Canada he'd be a goner on his next visit. He is a very hated man in Canada.I think a much better league would be between Russian, Canadian, Swedish and Slovakian cities, or others over there. It is just as far over the pole as it is to Los Angeles from say Montreal or Toronto.It doesn't have to be that the Nationals play for their own cities. It should be that whoever wants to pay gets the players. There's lots of rich guys who would buy teams. Screw Bettman and the NHL.We need our own Hockey League for the people who love the game and know what the hell ice is for. Structured more like the European soccer leagues are. It could be bigger than the NHL.And probably it would be a better game on the big ice.  I think the fans would be ravenous to see all those great stars. We only get to see a few from your leagues, as do you only get to see a few from our leagues. And for all the differences there are between our cultures, game theory says that if you play together even if you don't like each other, the humanity of being together brings you together. Ironically, that was a Nobel prize awarded to a man at a Jewish university. That's irony for you.

Exactly dimon225...post 1... The NHL is a league that is forced upon the Canadian players and cities. There are cities in the league (not in Canada) where they have to give away beer to fill the arena, and yet there are Canadian cities who are begging for teams and the place would be sold out as well. At least 8 teams in the NHL would have folded if this strike continued all season. At least 4 or even 6 cities in Canada could support those franchises better than they are being supported in their current cities. In some of those Stanley cup winning cities, and what I am about to say is unproven, unofficial but a common feeling among Canadians. Of the last 5 Stanley Cups, or so, at least three of them where engineered to be won, by what were the iffy franchises. Like the florida team, forgot their name, oh panthers. That was stolen from the Edmonton Oilers, the stanley cup that was played with Calgary was also stolen to a US team out of nowhere, frigin Carolina, ice is used for mint julips down there. Or it could be the reverse, doesn't matter it happened. This is done to increase TV money.

Pity to see you guys leave, I was hoping you'd stick around longer, damn Gary Bettman.