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Bettman In High Tax Bracket
by Paul on 07/13/09 at 11:41 AM ET
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via The Detroit News,
NHL commissioner Gary Bettman was paid $7.1 million in salary and benefits for the 2007-08 season, according to league tax filings and reported by Sports Business Journal.
For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2008, Bettman earned $4,197,694 from the NHL and $2,911,550 from NHL Enterprises, the league’s business arm, according to the report. The total package represents a 27-percent raise over the previous season and the highest level of compensation Bettman has received in 16 years as commissioner.
added 11:53am, The Sporting News has posted the full article from Tripp Mickle of SBJ.
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It’s a joke alright, just not the kind you were hoping for.
Posted by MarkK from Maryland on 07/13/09 at 10:51 AM ET
Commissioner compensation should be linked to the salary cap.
If he gets more money, the salary cap goes up by the same percentage. 
Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 07/13/09 at 10:53 AM ET
Good idea, Baroque, but I was hoping maybe we could get President Obama to pull “a GM” and fire the head of the NHL to allow it to reorganize properly.
Posted by YzermanZetterberg on 07/13/09 at 11:17 AM ET
It’s part of a front loaded 50 year contract designed to circumvent the NHL’s budget.
He makes a bunch of money up front and then gets $1.95 a year for the last 45 years so it all fits under the executive payroll cap.
Just copying the Red Wings, that’s all.
Posted by Tuck on 07/13/09 at 11:22 AM ET
The $2.9 million is for the awesome job of marketing that he’s doing.
Great idea Baroque.
Posted by jennyquarx on 07/13/09 at 11:25 AM ET
What happened to “Cost Certainty”? LOL ,what a joke!!No salary cap in his office. What’s his salary compared to the other Big 3 Chiefs (commissioners).
Posted by Lindas1st on 07/13/09 at 11:52 AM ET
Sorry I did it again. I seen the other salaries in the update, thanx anyway.
Posted by Lindas1st on 07/13/09 at 11:55 AM ET
$5.8 million for officiating fees
So, LG makes more than all of the officials, combined. That’s cool, I guess. No wonder it’s so easy to bribe them.
Posted by MarkK from Maryland on 07/13/09 at 12:08 PM ET
Sure, he makes less than the other Big 3; I would like to see the commissioner salary per dollar of league revenue. I’m sure it’s easy enough to look up but I’m not feeling it right now.
Posted by MarkK from Maryland on 07/13/09 at 12:09 PM ET
MLB 6.2 B
NFL 6.0
NBA 3.2
Conclusion: Goodell is way underpaid at 10.9 million, pulling in almost the same revenue as Selig (MLB).
Bettman is slightly overpaid, compared to Stern (NBA)
Posted by MarkK from Maryland on 07/13/09 at 12:13 PM ET
I’m sure it’s easy enough to look up but I’m not feeling it right now.
Posted by MarkK from Ithaca on 07/13/09 at 01:09 PM ET
And then there it is, a few minutes later.
Slow day in the lab, MarkK?
Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 07/13/09 at 12:16 PM ET
Absolutely. Struggling with a new stats program to run a 3-way ANOVA.
Posted by MarkK from Maryland on 07/13/09 at 12:36 PM ET
Conclusion: Goodell is way underpaid at 10.9 million, pulling in almost the same revenue as Selig (MLB).
Either that or Selig is outrageously overpaid. The latest figures for Selig is a monster $18.35 million in 2007 (which incidentally was only less than only 3 mlb players at that time and doesn’t include the figures for the current contract he’s under which likely includes a healthy bump from that 2007 figure).
What’s his salary compared to the other Big 3 Chiefs (commissioners).
From the Sports Business Journal:
Bud Selig; $18.35 million (2007 figures)
Roger Goodell; $11.2 million
David Stern; $10 million (estimated as the NBA isn’t required to disclose)
Tim Finchem (PGA Tour) $4.8 million
Posted by UMFan from Colorado on 07/13/09 at 12:38 PM ET
Struggling with a new stats program to run a 3-way ANOVA.
Posted by MarkK from Ithaca on 07/13/09 at 01:36 PM ET
Oh, god - I feel for you. I hope at least you are running it on lab data and not data from the field, with all kinds of missing cells because your study organism was eaten in that plot.
Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 07/13/09 at 02:14 PM ET
I hope at least you are running it on lab data and not data from the field, with all kinds of missing cells because your study organism was eaten in that plot.
Um...yeah what she said.
Posted by Animal Drew from A Nightmare on Helm Street on 07/13/09 at 02:15 PM ET
Commissioner compensation should be linked to the salary cap.If he gets more money, the salary cap goes up by the same percentage.
Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 07/13/09 at 11:53 AM ET[/quote
And by inverse trend, he should get a percentage cut when the cap goes down.
This is a big f*cking joke.
Posted by SYF from Las Vegas, NV on 07/13/09 at 02:21 PM ET
I hope at least you are running it on lab data and not data from the field, with all kinds of missing cells because your study organism was eaten in that plot.
That would be a much more exciting explanation than what I have for my missing cells…
There is an incredible amount of variation even in well-defined synapses, including a moving threshold for transmitter release; which makes things difficult when you’re testing at low voltage steps with a changing input resistance and one or the other electrodes clogs or the cell decides to die before finishing the protocol and....
Posted by MarkK from Maryland on 07/13/09 at 02:49 PM ET
There is an incredible amount of variation even in well-defined synapses, including a moving threshold for transmitter release; which makes things difficult when you’re testing at low voltage steps with a changing input resistance and…
Stop it, you two. Stop. It.
You’re burning out what few brain cells I have left at my age. 
Posted by OlderThanChelios from Grand Rapids on 07/13/09 at 03:11 PM ET
Redirect: Bettman is a troll. His daughter is a student here at Cornell; we share a mutual friend, and I have so far resisted the urge to tell her that her father is a troll to her face.
Posted by MarkK from Maryland on 07/13/09 at 03:15 PM ET
MarkK, be better than that. Keep you’re criticisms for Bettman himself. Please “do NOT convict the child for his or her father’ sins”.
Posted by Lindas1st on 07/13/09 at 03:27 PM ET
There is an incredible amount of variation even in well-defined synapses, including a moving threshold for transmitter release; which makes things difficult when you’re testing at low voltage steps with a changing input resistance and one or the other electrodes clogs or the cell decides to die before finishing the protocol and....
Posted by MarkK from Ithaca on 07/13/09 at 03:49 PM ET
Ah, the joys of equipment issues. You have the proper temperature protocol for the GCMS, the right column, the proper gas flow rate, the right concentration to avoid overloading the column, and the computer moves the acquisition window for some oddball reason, or the flame ont he FID goes out so you get no data from that detector, or the stupid automatic injector is off by a hair so the needle gets bent and no sample gets run for the entire weekend, so the first thing Monday you have to recap all the autosampler vials and rerun the entire set ...
And biology is even more uncertain than that when you start dealing with whole organisms. 
Stop it, you two. Stop. It.
Sorry. Nerd talk. Science nerds like talking to other science nerds. We’re really strange that way.
Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 07/13/09 at 04:17 PM ET
I consider myself more of a geek, but nerd will do.
Posted by MarkK from Maryland on 07/13/09 at 05:37 PM ET
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Posted by Animal Drew from A Nightmare on Helm Street on 07/13/09 at 10:44 AM ET