I would also like Mr. Bettman for being so Anti-Canadian because really, the money is in the US and the fact that hockey is such an American game, especially in fine cities such as Miami and Nashville when cities such as Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Hamilton and Halifax would not suit the new NHL.

And finally, I would like to thank Mr. Bettman for disrespecting an entire country and insulting a Canadian hockey fan every chance he gets, especially for trying to make us think that moving a hockey franchise from 2 Canadian cities was a smart move and done for hockey in general

Mr Bettman, I do hope you realize that this whole message is very sarcastic. I’m going to say what every Canadian hockey fan wants to say. GET OUT!!!, you obviously do not have the sense of a cockroach to run a league such as the NHL, and as a Canadian, I know you are doing everything you can to get hockey out of Canada, but guess what, 30 million people will not go down without a fight.

Will the Great White Game of Ice Hockey Survive Jewish Meddling?

By Mark Neufeldt

The National Hockey League (NHL) season has reached the quarter pole, and already there are rumblings of an attendance crisis. Some teams are reporting attendance figures as low as 8,000 for games in state-of-the-art arenas that seat capacity crowds of more than 20,000. Chicago, Long Island, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Colorado, and Phoenix have all seen precipitous declines in attendance- some as low as 22% below last season’s figures.

Overall, the League has seen average attendance dip from 17,285 a year ago to 16,743 this season. This was a decline that Hockey News reporter, Ken Campbell, ominously described as a “slippery slope,” pointing out that “players receive 54 per cent of revenues up to $2.2 billion, but if the decline in attendance continues, there’s a very good chance they could be giving money back to the league this season.” (1)

Some observers charge that League attendance is actually much worse than is being reported. Detroit News hockey correspondent, Ted Kulfan, found 13,000 fans present at a game where the Detroit Red Wings had announced an attendance of 20,066. Former Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) reporter, Jamie Fitzpatrick, asked “if Hockeytown can pad its numbers by about 30 percent, what kind of lies are they telling at other NHL arenas? How many real people showed up for Wednesday’s games in Florida (which reported 14,312 loyal customers), Atlanta (12,579) or Anaheim (12,394)?” (2)

League officials had high hopes that a new collective bargaining agreement between the League and the players, coupled with rule changes designed to speed-up the game, would bring the fans back after a year-long lockout in 2005. But, what the evidence seems to indicate, is that the League’s attendance problems began much earlier, and can be traced to sweeping changes instituted by a racially-conscious Jewish executive, his Jewish staff, and Jewish network television executives, who demanded changes to the game that reflected their own interests, which came at the expense of hockey fans. (3)

Knowledgeable fans and hockey journalists point to the reign of NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman- a prominent Jewish activist, and former executive in the National Basketball Association- as the source of the current disconnect between the League and ticket buyers. Though he grew up on Long Island, New York, where hockey is a very popular sport, and claimed he was a fan of the game, he never actually played the game as a youth. Bettman was the first commissioner in League history who did not have real ties to the game. (4)

Upon assuming the commissionership, Bettman immediately surrounded himself with a coterie of corporate, media-savvy Jews- Steve Solomon (ABC), Arthur Pincus (Washington Post) , and Bernandette Mansur (Reebok)- who were tasked with securing a network television contract for the League. Bettman’s staff was so top-heavy with Jews, that a host of hockey columnists, including the Toronto Sun’s Al Strachen, began euphemistically referring to the League brass as the “New York lawyers,” and complained that they “didn’t understand the game.” Bettman’s ruling clique was so out-of-touch with the rest of the hockey world that the phrase stuck, and Strachen was forced to defend himself against charges of “anti-Semitism” leveled by Jewish hockey writer Stan Fischler on “Hockey Night in Canada.”

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DON’T HANG SADDAM, HANG GARY BETTMAN!!!

BRING BACK HOCKEY!!!!!!!!

The NJ Devils Cam Janssen is doing his best to preserve the tradition, though.

Anyway – count me in as a fan of “olde-tyme” hockey and bring back the 3rd and 4th line muckers like my favorites – the “Crash line”

Go Devils!