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I couldn't finish the video when you started showing the potato quality clips... Don't say that's the best quality you could get. That's just called being lazy

Our state has still never let go of this team. You see people wearing whalers jerseys to sporting events, concerts, or just random bars. We even used the same color palette for our minor league baseball team the Hartford Yard Goats.

An all time great team.

I just think bettman is very short sighted

Back in the day I was okay with the glowing puck. It was the long comet tail that bugged me.

Wisconsin legend

Hes going in because Jeremys spoken

Good video...EXCEPT for the annoying stat line right in the middle of the screen while showing video. Terrible idea.

of course its the leafs that nearly ruined kessel...

Bettman did some good things, but him trying to make hockey American makes him and the NHL unlikeable.

Gary Bettman is the Finchinator of hockey (for those who understand)

Gary Bettman's legacy summarized up; 1. 3 league lock-outs under his watch = More then any of the big 4 NA major sports leagues (NFL, MBL, NBA & NHL). 2. Put on the strictest salary cap-hot of all sports leagues. 3. 6 NHL teams have been relocated under his watch; Minnesota North Stars, Quebec Nordiques, Winnipeg Jets, Hartford Whalers, Atlanta Thrashers & Arizona Coyotes. 4. His pet project of having a NHL team in Arizona have for decades proved not be working, yet through help kept them going. 5. Killed off the Olympics for ALL NHL players = killed the hockey world from having there the best players in respective nation and also killed chances for future HOF players like Alexander Ovetchkin & Evgeni Malkin from ever winning a Olympic gold or a medal overall (2018, but 2022 No Russian born players was allowed anyway.)

bettman has certainly done his share of good things like starting the winter classic and stadium series traditions and bringing hockey back to winnipeg but ofc yah he's had some questionable things too for sure like his view on concussions, the way he handled the kyle beach scandal, lockouts, especially the 2004-2005 one, the way he handled the last three weeks of the 2019-2020 season, ending the leagues affiliation with NBCSN in 2021. What a well said video as usual 👏

As bad as he is, he's still better than Goodell or Silver

He is a weak component of the NHL because what I want to see to keep the game FAIR has not been addressed. The salary cap is a complete joke and the way refs officiate is also a big joke. So an example of garbage refs is they let so many penalties go and we have a large community that defends that ...fine but they are oh so quick to make the shot over the boards call like instantly every time no free passes. So their inept officiating can ruin the =fair balance of a game they let one team get away with interference all game they cannot generate any offense but make that fast over the boards call and it is a game deciding powerplay.

Amazing Video

Very informative! I really think ESPN has declined in their coverage of hockey and I hope that when the next TV contract comes up that TNT gets the bulk of the games and ESPN either goes away completely or has a minor role.

This didn't age well lol

Bettman BLOWS! nhl still ranks 4th and way behind the other big three u s sports in terms of revenue $$$'s and tv viewership after 30 years. Way to go bettman. At least his az. yotes failure he enabled finally collapsed.

One of the most original video ideas!!!

Gary Bettman has been the commissioner of the NHL since 1993, the same year that the Montreal Canadiens won their 24th Stanley Cup. On March 12, 2025, CBS Sports will acquire the remaining 3 years of a current 7-year contract to hold the 1st half of the NHL’s media rights as well as rights to the 2025, 2026, and 2027 Thanksgiving Showdown, the 2027 Stanley Cup Finals, and the 2027 NHL Awards from ESPN, ABC, and TNT Sports, so beginning in the 2025-26 season and running through the 2027-28 season, CBS Sports Network will hold rights to at least 75 exclusive national games per season, the 2026, 2027, and 2028 NHL Awards, and the 2025, 2026, 2027, and 2028 NHL Draft, TNT will retain rights up to 72 exclusive national games per season, the Heritage Classic, and the Winter Classic, CBS will hold rights to the 2025, 2026, and 2027 Thanksgiving Showdown, 28 late-season games on Saturday afternoons per season, and the Stadium Series, CBS Sports will hold rights to the All-Star weekend with the Skills Competition airing on CBS Sports Network and the All-Star Game airing on CBS, CBS and CBS Sports Network will share in coverage of the Stanley Cup playoffs with TNT and TBS, holding rights to “half” of the games in the first 2 rounds and one of the conference finals per season, and CBS will hold exclusive rights to the 2026, 2027, and 2028 Stanley Cup Finals.

There were almost 15,000 people in the building the night before for an indoor soccer game ⚽️.Crazy times!

Remember the song Everybody Knows Your Name from Cheers? The Bruins were like that.

Three first rounders for Glen Wesley is just stupid.

The game 7 vs nucks was one of the best & carrying the team to one win away from the cup. The shift was the best for me iggy was possessed by the hockey gods 🙌🏼 also the pass to crosby was nice our country watching going crazy damn those iggy days the red mile best years of my life as a flames fan

On April 13, 2026, a Hartford-based group headed by Ray Dalio and Todd Boehly will purchase the Ottawa Senators from Michael Andlauer for $1.68 billion, including a relocation fee of $195 million to relocate the Senators to Hartford, if a deal between the Senators and the National Capital Commission to build a proposed hockey-specific venue in the LeBreton Flats district falls apart, Canadian Tire Centre's capacity plummets to 11,084 fans, and the ticket sales start to decline. On April 16, 2026, the NHL Board of Governors will approve both the sale and relocation of the Senators to Hartford in a unanimous vote, so after 33 years in Ottawa (excluding the 2004-05 NHL season which was canceled because of the lockout), the Senators will relocate to Hartford to become the 2nd incarnation of the Hartford Whalers and use the XL Center as their temporary home for the next 2 years until the new $1.2 billion 20,000-seat multi-purpose riverfront venue on the Connecticut Convention Center site is constructed, built, and open for the 2028-29 NHL season.

So glad we got him ,Pittsburgh,,loved the guy,,an Toronto didn't know what they had..but Toronto doesn't do anything right. When's the last time they went to the cup..? ..

I clearly remember this tournament! Awesome 👌

Great video

Phil Kessel should been signed previous season by so many tanking teams in need of solid veteran experience alone. Just look at the Buffalo Sabres, youngest team in the league but no on-ice leadership from experienced veteran(s). Or Columbus Blue Jackets, or Seattle Kraken etc. I mean he have been blessed by not carrying lots of injuries so a minimum contract is he all worth !!!!

Freaken goat

On kova jätkä :D

You just had to include that sad McDavid draft lottery shot.

hey leafs look ! a guy who can put the puck in the net after march ! imagine that !

love me some PHIL THE THRILL! He's too good for this town , Toronto doesn't deserve a Phil Kessel .

you dont want to now what i have to say about CBC fraking don from hockey night in canada

"Phil's freakish athletic ability shouldn't come as a suprise" ...as they show him putting up a giant air ball. Lol

I played doubles tennis with him 11 years ago!! I had no idea what a legend he is!!

LAZY

Hes a bum

It never helped that the Whalers were set in the middle of 2 original 6 teams that had long since staked their claims to the Ct. fan base, Rangers on the western side of the state and Boston to the eastern side of the state. Being a Boston fan, I went to a few games in Hartford where there would be more Bruins fans in attendance than Hartford fans. They did have some great players though.

Roy was the goalie of the future

Matthews now being the captain will show more in the playoffs with a wanting and willingness to prove all doubters wrong.I know that it's not an individual sport and only a team can go through the torturing rounds that playoof hockey is all about but he's matured and he's going to take great pride in having the C on his jersey. Austin take Toronto to the promise land and you will no doubt go down as the best player to ever wear the blue and white. GFG!!

Evil incarnate.

I see things about Auston becoming the all time goal scorer and it’s possible but it will be very hard. He is definitely going to be the leafs all time goal scoring leader and most likely the all time points leader

A coach forcing a kid to make this choice at such a young age to give up a sport is why that coach lost Auston in baseball.

if only he showed up in the playoffs

Will Auston Matthews finish his career as the NHL's all-time leading goal scorer?

Leafs are Ontario's only hope to end the Canadian cup drought

I honestly think Matthews will have the most goals in NHL history by the time he retires