Jan Levine: RTP/CBA agreement in principle reached, ratification the next step Hockey peace through 2025-26 near...

Well thats pretty awesome we have hockey for the next 5 years.

Well thats pretty awesome we have hockey for the next 5 years.
- mdw7413

I think I'll get more excited about that when world is back to normal

I think I'll get more excited about that when world is back to normal
- jimbro83

I hope we have murder hornets next year

Well thats pretty awesome we have hockey for the next 5 years.
- mdw7413

Again this is where I point out that Donald Fehr and bettman who combined have 7 work stoppages and 2 cancelled championships between them now have the only sport with solid labor peace.

Well thats pretty awesome we have hockey for the next 5 years.
- mdw7413

Does this mean Panarin isn't going to hold out now?

Again this is where I point out that Donald Fehr and bettman who combined have 7 work stoppages and 2 cancelled championships between them now have the only sport with solid labor peace.
- 2sticks1puck

There is always going to be issues at some point, but I don't think either of those guys get enough credit. Bettman gets booed all the time and if you look at his overall record of revenue and growing the sport he has done an incredible job from when he 1st started.

Does this mean Panarin isn't going to hold out now?
- TPC

That was a hostage letter, no way he had anything to do with that. He won't do an interview, but somehow wrote all that.

That was a hostage letter, no way he had anything to do with that. He won't do an interview, but somehow wrote all that.
- mdw7413

He could have had one of these moments

He could have had one of these moments



- TPC

There is always going to be issues at some point, but I don't think either of those guys get enough credit. Bettman gets booed all the time and if you look at his overall record of revenue and growing the sport he has done an incredible job from when he 1st started.
- mdw7413

I've always taken the belief that Bettman has been the best commissioner in league history. He has had several missteps, but betting the US market over the Canadian one (sans Montreal Toronto etc that will always print money) was in fact one of his best decisions ever. People mock teams like the Yotes and Panthers, but the Sharks and Bolts have pretty much always been in the top handful in attendance and I'm not sure guys like Austin Matthews ever put a stick in their hand without the southern expansion.

Although it was on national TV at the time too, the fact the Rangers cup win was on local TV is still mind boggling for me. Bettman fixing TV rights was a monumental accomplishment.

I've always taken the belief that Bettman has been the best commissioner in league history. He has had several missteps, but betting the US market over the Canadian one (sans Montreal Toronto etc that will always print money) was in fact one of his best decisions ever. People mock teams like the Yotes and Panthers, but the Sharks and Bolts have pretty much always been in the top handful in attendance and I'm not sure guys like Austin Matthews ever put a stick in their hand without the southern expansion.

Although it was on national TV at the time too, the fact the Rangers cup win was on local TV is still mind boggling for me. Bettman fixing TV rights was a monumental accomplishment.
- 2sticks1puck

well, I think there has only been 3 of them lol

I've always taken the belief that Bettman has been the best commissioner in league history. He has had several missteps, but betting the US market over the Canadian one (sans Montreal Toronto etc that will always print money) was in fact one of his best decisions ever. People mock teams like the Yotes and Panthers, but the Sharks and Bolts have pretty much always been in the top handful in attendance and I'm not sure guys like Austin Matthews ever put a stick in their hand without the southern expansion.

Although it was on national TV at the time too, the fact the Rangers cup win was on local TV is still mind boggling for me. Bettman fixing TV rights was a monumental accomplishment.
- 2sticks1puck

Yup. No one is perfect but Bettman has been great for the NHL.

well, I think there has only been 3 of them lol
- jimbro83

Don't you have a drummers b-day to celebrate today?

Don't you have a drummers b-day to celebrate today?
- mdw7413

cant believe he's 80, thats cray

cant believe he's 80, thats cray
- jimbro83

Not handsome

Not handsome
- mdw7413

oh no, but that never stopped him from getting lots of poon tang though

Ringo banged everything

oh no, but that never stopped him from getting lots of poon tang though

Ringo banged everything
- jimbro83

Why was Best thrown out of the group?

I would have been pissed. Not that he didn't do bad for himself, but still

Why was Best thrown out of the group?

I would have been pissed. Not that he didn't do bad for himself, but still
- mdw7413

rumour has it because girls use to like him better than Paul and John,so they booted him, but I think mostly because he wasnt a very good drummer, could only do a straight 4/4 rock song

they still had no idea how big they were going to get when they changed the drummer, to them at the time it was no big deal, guys were in and out of bands all the time

rumour has it because girls use to like him better than Paul and John,so they booted him, but I think mostly because he wasnt a very good drummer, could only do a straight 4/4 rock song

they still had no idea how big they were going to get when they changed the drummer, to them at the time it was no big deal, guys were in and out of bands all the time
- jimbro83

Ah.

Yeah it happens with early bands, but the timing, oh man.

Not sure if you were a Crue fan but the movie on netflix The Dirt was actually really good

oh no, but that never stopped him from getting lots of poon tang though

Ringo banged everything
- jimbro83

That’s because Ringo has a gigantic d!ck.
I can relate

Ah.

Yeah it happens with early bands, but the timing, oh man.

Not sure if you were a Crue fan but the movie on netflix The Dirt was actually really good
- mdw7413

I still say the time I saw Motley Crue on the Dr Feelgood Tour, 1990, Outdoor show in Bristol, CT was the best concert I ever saw.

I was never that big of a Crue fan, I liked them, didnt love them I used to go see most hair bands live from like 1988-91 in clubs and places back in those days, but they blew me away that night

That’s because Ringo had a gigantic d!ck
- Slimtj100

oh yeah, 2nd only to Hendrix

I still say the time I saw Motley Crue on the Dr Feelgood Tour, 1990, Outdoor show in Bristol, CT was the best concert I ever saw.

I was never that big of a Crue fan, I liked them, didnt love them I used to go see most hair bands live from like 1988-91 in clubs and places back in those days, but they blew me away that night
- jimbro83

Yeah I was always a Crue fan, I will never forget I was 9 and Christmas day my grandmother gave me a cassette Shout at the Devil