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Bettman’s News Conference

by Alanah McGinley on 05/24/08 at 06:54 PM ET
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From Mike Householder of the AP via Yahoo!

NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said every team in the league will play all the others at least once next season.

The announcement came Saturday before Game 1 of the Stanley Cup finals between Pittsburgh and Detroit, two teams that did not meet this regular season.

Bettman also used his annual pre-Cup news conference to say the size of goaltenders’ equipment will be analyzed in the offseason.

A complete transcript of Bettman’s remarks should be made available on this post shortly.

Update 8:27pm ET: Complete transcript now available below, of the commissioner’s opening remarks as well as the question & answer session which followed.

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