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" I don't really think about having a retrospective on my high-school years. It's not something that, from a positive or a negative standpoint, is a driving force in my life. "
Gary Bettman
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" NHL clubs don't like having to shut down at a critical part of the season and disrupt our season for anything, let alone a situation where we're not given an opportunity to promote our presence. "
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" You don't want people rooting for anything other than the team that they love and the players that they think the world of to win. We don't want there to be another agenda. "
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" Whatever you do needs to be sustainable over time, and taking the money in the short term and taking it in a bubble - like buying an Internet stock in 2000 - may not be sustainable. "
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" NHL clubs have not wanted to go to the Olympics, and we have been saying that for months if not years. "
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" From as early as I can remember, I was focused on becoming a lawyer. "
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" I never rule anything in or out; life can surprise you. "
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" The good news for us is the NHL has never been stronger, never been more popular, and that, I guess, has led to a lot of interest being expressed from a number of places, an interest in getting an expansion team, and Las Vegas happens to be one of those places. "
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" I think it's fairly clear that playing hockey isn't the same as playing football. "
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" My rooting interest these days is first and foremost competitive hockey, and secondly in officials not making a mistake. "
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" What we have tried to instill across the league through ownership and management is that we stand for inclusiveness and to judge somebody on the merits. "
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" I think that when somebody loses a bet, they tend to sometimes confuse their motives in rooting and enjoying the game because if you lose your bet, even though the team you're rooting for wins, you have a potentially conflicted outcome. "
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" We'll have clinics and educational events and conferences to get more and more young players developing as hockey players. "
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" Because of the way my words get scrutinized, I have to use a level of precision so people don't accuse me of misleading them. "
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" Our sport probably has the best history and tradition of being engaged in international competition. "
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" We did the World Cup to relaunch our international efforts, and that served as a foundation. "
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" We went from journalism, in newspapers that gets heavily edited, to blogs, where you can express your opinions, to tweeting, where you can say anything, and it gets repeated and becomes fact when it isn't. It's something the entire world is going to have to come to grips with. "
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" Our economics are not baseball's economics. Our game is not baseball's game. Our owners are not baseball's owners, with one or two exceptions. Our union is not baseball's union. What we do has to be crafted and suited to address hockey, to address the NHL, to address our 30 teams and our 700-plus players. "
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" I don't worry about the integrity of the game. Our players are professionals. "
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" We don't worry about the integrity of our game. I'm more focused on the atmosphere in the arena, and that's something we're comfortable with going forward. "
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" When you look at the team that Jimmy Rutherford has put together and the players that he has, this is just a great story of excellent in professional sports. "
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" I don't feel that it's either necessary or appropriate for me to comment on what the NFL either says or does. "
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" My message to the kids and our fans is hockey's a great game. There's a lot of hockey being played at all levels. Get involved, do it. We will be back and we will be back better than ever and hopefully as soon as possible. Don't give up on the game. It's too good. "
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" There are a couple people who have complained on other teams about some of the things that Pittsburgh players have done. Some of that goes in the category of gamesmanship. Some of that goes to the fact that we need to be vigilant as a league to make sure that players aren't unnecessarily and inappropriately hurt. "
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" In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not done. "
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" The Olympics are very proprietary about letting others promote and market what's going on, so we shut down for 17 days, and they don't let us do a whole lot in return for giving our players to them. We don't get compensated, and we've never looked for compensation. "
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" I think it's fair to say that all of the teams that have been in the playoffs have played very physically. "
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