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Old 03-31-2016, 07:26 PM   #970
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I guess this means, as of Wed. Mar. 30, 2016, Canada's relevancy in the NHL is dead. And this is all due to Gary Bettman making constant changes to the league's financial model to stop the NHL teams in Canada from ever winning the Cup again.

To him, having NHL teams in Canada is only seen as a token gesture to us, to keep our mouths shut.

To Gary, the teams here are only to be treated as a pro 'farm system' for the teams in the U.S. And he punishes all fans of Canada's teams for being that...fans of Canada's teams.

Gary is nothing more, to me, than a snivelling coward, just like Donald Trump. But, let's face facts, American financial conservatives, like him, buy the ability to escape punishment for unfair treatment of non-American collectives. It's his way to stay in power till he dies in office.

And he also won't permit the one who takes office after his death to let Canada's teams back into the Cup conversation. That his business model must stay in place, unchanged, long after he's gone.

It all reeks of institutionalized anti-Canadian corporate fascism coming from the NHL HQ in New York, and it all sucks wholesale.

Gary also doesn't want to see any display of Canadian patriotism on a U.S. TV network during a Cup ceremony, because, to him, and NBC in the U.S., who have editorial control over the league on TV, on both sides of the border, don't want to see, for example, the Habs winning the Cup at home on NBC, with a Canadian flag waving in the background.

To NBC, it's all about Old Glory, and nothing else.

It's time for him to be forced from power, by any means necessary. And he can take that bald idiot, Bill Daly, to Hell with him. > = (
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