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Thumbs Up Or Down For Bettman
by Paul on 02/02/07 at 05:17 PM ET
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Allan Muir at Sports Illustrated takes a look at 14 issues Gary Bettman has faced and breaks down how he handled each one of them…
1. Expansion
The Ducks and Panthers were already approved before he came on board in 1993, but he was expected to do more than simply coordinate the addition of franchises in Atlanta, Columbus, Nashville and Minnesota—only the last of which was truly justified—and leverage those new markets into more exposure (primarily, a better TV deal) for the product in the American market. That hasn’t happened, and now we’re left with a diluted product and tenuous markets struggling to find an audience. THUMB’S DOWN
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