Haha. Yeah he was doing the job of every player, every GM, every owner, and every agent - all at ONCE!
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I totally get that - but despite some teams moving around in the early 90s (Hartford, Minnesota, Quebec, Winnipeg) the NHL has been very stable under his tenure - look back at other periods: I'm looking at you, Seals/Golden Seals/Rockies/Barons/Scouts/A. Flames, and Bettman's era has been a model of stability and profitability.
For all the heat his "Sun Belt" program has taken - apart from Phoenix/Arizona - most of the Southern teams have done just fine - Dallas, Carolina, and Anaheim all have won Cups, and they, along with San Jose are making money.
18 Team Full Keeper. Total points.
Start 10 F, 3 D, 1 UTIL, 1 G
3 Points: SHO, 2 Points: G, PPA, SHG, SHA, W, 1 Point: A, PPG, GWG, .25 Points: BLK, .1 Points: FOW, SOG, SV, .15 Points: HIT, -.05 Points: FOL, -.15 Points: GA
Forwards: Backstrom, Barre-Boulet, Beauvillier, Caufield, Dickinson, Donato, Donskoi, Gourde, Greenway, Horvat, Kase, Keller, Kuznetsov, MacKinnon, Marchessault, J. T. Miller, Sikura, Tarasenko, Zegras
Defense: Barrie, Brannstrom, Cholowski, Honka, Matheson, Pulock, Shattenkirk
Goal: Dubnyk, Jarry, Markstrom, Merzlikins
2014-15, 2016-17 MHL Champions!
Brutal!
8 Team Keeper League
Points Only League. 10F, 4D, 1G active.
Keep 15 end of year - any position & re-draft 5 + 3 IR.
Scoring Cats - Goals (1), Assists (1)
Goalie Cats - Win (2), SO (3)
F - Crosby, Giroux, Iginla, Ovechkin, Parise, Nugent-Hopkins, Seguin, Johansen, Nash, Yakupov, Semin
D - Barrie, Letang, Shultz
G - Fleury
Dallas was losing money as of a few years ago, and Carolina was even last season. Not sure about Anaheim, but frankly, all those southern teams are being propped up by the stronger teams in the league. Not a successful thing in my mind, but this is a big debate point to be honest, so I guess we can't go too deep into it here.
Either way, he made insane money.
You see profit sharing in most major leagues - the point is, the league makes money, and teams in the South keep the brand at least slightly in the public eye in non-traditional markets.
I see your point - and I fully respect why you feel that way.
You can see it as trying to grow the brand, albeit expensively - or you can see it as just throwing good money after bad. It's honestly probably a little of both.
But yeah, $8.8M is nuts!
18 Team Full Keeper. Total points.
Start 10 F, 3 D, 1 UTIL, 1 G
3 Points: SHO, 2 Points: G, PPA, SHG, SHA, W, 1 Point: A, PPG, GWG, .25 Points: BLK, .1 Points: FOW, SOG, SV, .15 Points: HIT, -.05 Points: FOL, -.15 Points: GA
Forwards: Backstrom, Barre-Boulet, Beauvillier, Caufield, Dickinson, Donato, Donskoi, Gourde, Greenway, Horvat, Kase, Keller, Kuznetsov, MacKinnon, Marchessault, J. T. Miller, Sikura, Tarasenko, Zegras
Defense: Barrie, Brannstrom, Cholowski, Honka, Matheson, Pulock, Shattenkirk
Goal: Dubnyk, Jarry, Markstrom, Merzlikins
2014-15, 2016-17 MHL Champions!
I don't see the fuss.
The NHL is basically a multi billion dollar business as a whole. Bettman runs the show. Why wouldn't his salary be this high?
14 team Fantrax H2H keeper league
G, A, P, SOG, Hits, Blocks, FOW, - W, Gaa, Sv%, Svs
C - Crosby, Tavares, Kopitar, Toews
LW - Hall, Giroux(C), Vrana, Gaudreau
RW - Pastrnak, Kane, Stamkos(C), Kubalik
D - Burns, Murphy, Morrisey, Cernak, Whitecloud, Chiarot
G - Mrazek, Campbell, Brossoit, Greiss
Bench - Middlestat, Wennberg, Perron, Olofsson, Schwartz, Atkinson, Yama
H2H Daily 12 Team League, 7 Keepers
Start 3C, 3 LW, 3 RW, 4D, 2G
G, A, +/-, SOG, PPP, PIM, HIT, BLK, W, L, GAA, SV%, SHO
2014-15 Champion
C- Tavares, Krejci, Trocheck
LW- Hall, Lee, Guentzel (C), Lucic, Skinner, Marchessault (C)
RW- Lindholm (C), Radulov, Nylander (C), Arvidsson,
D- Weber, Provorov, Klingberg, Hamilton
G- Bishop, Lehner, Mrazek
Farm: Zacha, Bjork
18 Team Full Keeper. Total points.
Start 10 F, 3 D, 1 UTIL, 1 G
3 Points: SHO, 2 Points: G, PPA, SHG, SHA, W, 1 Point: A, PPG, GWG, .25 Points: BLK, .1 Points: FOW, SOG, SV, .15 Points: HIT, -.05 Points: FOL, -.15 Points: GA
Forwards: Backstrom, Barre-Boulet, Beauvillier, Caufield, Dickinson, Donato, Donskoi, Gourde, Greenway, Horvat, Kase, Keller, Kuznetsov, MacKinnon, Marchessault, J. T. Miller, Sikura, Tarasenko, Zegras
Defense: Barrie, Brannstrom, Cholowski, Honka, Matheson, Pulock, Shattenkirk
Goal: Dubnyk, Jarry, Markstrom, Merzlikins
2014-15, 2016-17 MHL Champions!
Who here gets paid more than their boss? I think ilthis salary is perfectly reasonable for Bettman. If anything it's probably a little less than I expected. Also, I imagine that he'd probably have a lot more work to do during a lockout than any other time of the year.
Fantrax - Salary cap dynasty - cap hit - H2H each category
Start: 2C, 2LW, 2RW, 4D, 2UTIL, 2G, 6 Bench, 4IR
Cats: G, A, +/-, PIM, STG, STA, SOG, FOW, GWG, Hits, BLK, W, GAA, Saves, SV%, SO
C: Getzlaf, Turris, Eakin, ____
LW: Kunitz, MacArthur, Pacioretty, ____
RW: Little (C), Tarasenko, Eriksson (LW)
D: Pietrangelo, JJ, Streit, Brodie, Benn, ____
G: Lundqvist, Bishop, Holtby
Farm: Grigorenko, H Lindholm, Faksa, Collberg, Grimaldi, Lee, K Hayes, G Carey, Schmaltz
G: Grubauer, Gudlevskis
8.8 million. Perfectly reasonable.
Sorry, but there are few people who I would say that's reasonable for. Maybe Bill Gates since he's basically trying to change the entire planet with his philanthropy.
Fantrax - Salary cap dynasty - cap hit - H2H each category
Start: 2C, 2LW, 2RW, 4D, 2UTIL, 2G, 6 Bench, 4IR
Cats: G, A, +/-, PIM, STG, STA, SOG, FOW, GWG, Hits, BLK, W, GAA, Saves, SV%, SO
C: Getzlaf, Turris, Eakin, ____
LW: Kunitz, MacArthur, Pacioretty, ____
RW: Little (C), Tarasenko, Eriksson (LW)
D: Pietrangelo, JJ, Streit, Brodie, Benn, ____
G: Lundqvist, Bishop, Holtby
Farm: Grigorenko, H Lindholm, Faksa, Collberg, Grimaldi, Lee, K Hayes, G Carey, Schmaltz
G: Grubauer, Gudlevskis