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Originally Posted by Ahbroody
all I can say is, called it!
I also believe they will handle the Habs. Provided the games are called with no bias.  |
Pah, if any game in the NHL is ever with bias it's far more likely to be in the favour of whatever US team is involved than in favour of a Canadian team. Bettman knows he has the Canadian market locked up no matter what happens, it's all the southern US market's where hockey has questionable drawing power than he's in trouble. He can probably better market an all US team final to those markets than he can one involving a Canadian team, and that's the direction he's been vainly attempting to grow the league and game.
Might be a little different with Montreal this year considering how well he could spin the whole underdog story combined with fact that the Habs are hockey's NY Yankees, but I digress.
Bettman is pretty universally hated up here North of 49th in case you couldn't tell
I would love to see a Canadian team win the Cup simply to hear Bettman get booed during the Cup presentation.