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" 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. "

Gary Bettman

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Vegas

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Gary Bettman

Words

Way

" I think the media world is adjusting to the digital age. "

" I think it's fair to say that all of the teams that have been in the playoffs have played very physically. "

" There is less fighting in the game than we had years ago. I mean, we penalize it. "

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

" None of our series are ever static in terms of the dates. We always have a range of flexibility to respond to whatever may or may not happen. "

" I believe, certainly in the NHL, a player who can help a team win because he can contribute on the ice is going to be coveted whatever his beliefs may be or whoever he may be. That goes to national origin, religious beliefs, or sexuality. "

" You can have the biggest markets in the world, but if the game isn't exciting, compelling, and competitive, it's not going to generate a lot of interest. "

" 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. "

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

Gary Bettman

Events

Hockey

" I'm not here to win a popularity contest. "

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

Gary Bettman

Season

" 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. "

" At least two or three of the leagues in Europe over the last few months have said to us, 'We hope you go to the Olympics,' and I looked at them, and I said, 'Why?' and they go, 'Because if you don't send NHL players, we have to send our players, and that's way too disruptive to our season.' "

" I think there's always a line between what is parody in good fun in chanting and what is intended to belittle certain segments of society. "

" The Steelers run a great organization. "

" 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. "

" It takes two sides to make a deal, two sides to negotiate and two sides to make it go bad. "

Gary Bettman

Deal

Sides

" On the issue of behavioral health and the like, the program we have in place has always been available to former players as well. "

" I think it's our job to create a culture and an environment where a gay player knows he is safe and welcome. If and when that happens, believe me - that person will have the full support of the commissioner's office. "

" I think there needs some attention to be paid to what sport is going to represent to young people: should it be viewed in the competitive, team-oriented sense that it is now, or does it become a vehicle for betting, which may, in effect, change the atmosphere in the stadiums and the arenas? "

" 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. "

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

" While players say they like the five-day break, they're also saying they don't like the compression that goes along with it, and that's something that is of great concern to us as well. "

Gary Bettman

Well

Saying

" To be the organization that we want to be, we have to have a place to play. "

" 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. "