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" What you want to do, particularly when you're dealing with a professional sports league and franchises and people's passionate commitment to the game and for the team they root for is, it has to be sustainable. "

Gary Bettman

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Sports

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" From as early as I can remember, I was focused on becoming a lawyer. "

" I think it's fairly clear that playing hockey isn't the same as playing football. "

" It's not about big markets or small markets. It's not about dominant teams or not. It's about the actual competition and how good the games are, how good the series turn out. That's what I think is the most important for fans. "

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" I'm having trouble understanding why there hasn't been further progress on CalgaryNext. "

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" We're not anti-Olympics, we're anti-disruption to the season. "

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" There are always going to be critics... and I have always had a rule: no matter how good the commentary is, or how bad the commentary is, it's more important that you do what you think is right. "

" 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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" Our franchises have never been healthier. Our league, in terms of its economic footing, has never been healthier. "

" When you're in other time zones in other places, you don't get quite as much attention; you don't get quite as much visibility for the game, and you give up a lot to do it. "

" We'll have clinics and educational events and conferences to get more and more young players developing as hockey players. "

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Events

Hockey

" 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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Words

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" If the IOC would move the Olympic hockey tournament to the summer, that would be great. We'd be thrilled to have our players participate because then it doesn't affect our season. "

" Sports, as a media property, is increasingly valuable because it's something you have to have live. As a result, we're a better touch point for sponsors and advertisers because our commercials typically don't get zapped out. "

" While we know gambling is part of the industry in Las Vegas, we're not going to make it all that easy for you to pick up a ticket, a gambling ticket, on your way into the arena. "

" Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic. "

" We just want to see entertaining, exciting games, and we want the officials to do a good job. "

" Fighting is one of those things that gets tons of attention, far more than it deserves. "

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Attention

Things

" I think it's very difficult to generalize as to why, in a particular league or a particular industry, somebody has or has not come out. We certainly don't want a player to come out for our sake. It should be what's right for him and something that he has to be comfortable with. "

" I don't think taunting chants at players on the other side of the ice is intended to be sexist in the slightest. It's like when you call a goaltender a sieve, they chant that. Is that now inappropriate also? "

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Ice

You

" I would hope there would be a greater appreciation by casual sports fans of the incredible skill and passion of our players. "