NHL Rescinds Pride Tape Ban After Coyotes’ Travis Dermott Defies Rule
NHL Rescinds Pride Tape Ban After Coyotes’ Travis Dermott Defies Rule
Good start. Now, oust Bettman and all of the genocide supporting bigot russians.
Bettman is a laundry list of massive failures.
Besides giving into homophobia and other ethical issues, he's not even good from a business perspective.
Look at the growth of other sports compared to hockey during his tenure. Multiple failed teams and moves. Phoenix is a joke. There are 3 teams in CA and 2 in FLA... Despite wanting to spread the NHL to new regions.
He's made TV viewing a nightmare. You can't just buy an NHL package. There are home game blackouts, games and multiple networks that aren't packaged together for away games. And most recently this dipshit decided to make the boards a green screen with moving fucking ads DURING PLAY. As if hockey wasn't challenging enough to track the play.
Fuck Bettman.
Any commissioner that still has blackout restrictions in their league is a crappy commissioner.
The NHL is stuck in the 90s with that Clown
I don't even watch it anymore, haven't for about 10 years, ever since I ditched cable. I would love to watch again, but it's way too expensive for a subscription, and like you said, blackout dates, fucking bullshit. I'm not paying nearly $300 a year, to not be able to watch any fucking game I want.
Die in a fire Bettman.
I don't get why the owners keep him around.
Not defending Bettman in any way, because I can't believe he still has his job with how shit he is at TV deals (if you think he's bad though, check out what it takes to watch the NFL).
It's hard to argue against the number of teams in CA and FL when they more often than not have better attendance than most of the Canadian teams. People are showing up, even in oddball markets like Nashville. Seattle and Las Vegas have already seen postseason play, with one winning the Cup, and their attendance is solid so expansion is obviously a good thing...
...all of which I mention to make the absolute shitshow of the Coyotes look even fucking worse. The team should have folded a decade ago.
THEY PLAY IN A COLLEGE HOCKEY ARENA.
Absolute amateur hour. This isn't like an NFL team playing in a D1 college stadium. That's happened before, but in that case those stadiums are just as large with nearly the same class of facilities. For it to be a comparable reduction in seats an NFL team would have to be playing at a frickin' Texas high school field.
Arizona barely gives a shit about hockey. Want to open things up? Move 'em to El Paso, which I think it still the largest metro area without a big four pro sports team. You can even keep the name. Or move them to Portland. Milwaukee? Fuckin' SLC? ANYWHERE?
For Phoenix alone Bettman should have been gone years ago.
Just gotta threaten the bottom line.
I wonder why unions are hated.
Probably unrelated
Too late, they've shown their bigot colors for everyone to see. Imagine being so uninhibitedly stupid as to go full bigot AND not go through with it so you don't even keep your bigot audience/owner segment happy meanwhile throwing up a klieg light of "boycott us" to the other 90% of your audience.
This is so much worse than the Donald Sterling moment for the NHL.
Lol seriously. They folded so goddamn fast too, which is telling
Not one single fuckin word of that title made any sense to me 😅