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Now if only the NBA could use the Dolans...

This will take years to pry from Chuck & Jim's cold dead hands

Have any of you guys seen the commercial where Shannahan tries to hit an apple with the puck off a guys head?

HILARIOUS!!!

Terminate the Rangers' franchise? Seriously, if NHL is to make threaths they should atleast make them probable.. otherwise it'll just be laughable.

It already is laughable!

Have any of you guys seen the commercial where Shannahan tries to hit an apple with the puck off a guys head?

HILARIOUS!!!

Cindy Crosby

Yeah, 8 1/2 months ago when it actually aired you idiot

BETTMAN S***S EVEN MORE NOW!!!

Yeah, Bettman wont get rid of the Florida Panthers, Atlanta Thrashers or Columbus Blue Jackets, but he'll axe the Rangers? Be serious. He puts NHL franchises in non-traditional markets and watches them flounder, but then he'll threaten to remove a storied franchise from one of America's largest markets? Can we give Bettman back to the NBA before he does even more damage to the NHL?

Sick 'em, Spiny.............

Everyone should support the Rangers right now - even Flyers fans!
The NHL has to stop its ridiculous fascist deeds!

GO RANGERS GO

It's a damn conspiracy........

Terminate the Rangers' franchise? Seriously, if NHL is to make threaths they should atleast make them probable.. otherwise it'll just be laughable.
Dashiva | 06/20/08, 08:27 AM

Terminate MSG's OWNERSHIP of the rangers....not the rangers.

but if they are going to terminate the rangers, I would like to request they do it in the following order:

1. avery
2. Hollweig
3. tikkanen
4. beukoboom
5. messier
6. M. keenan

if they terminate the rangers all those ranger fans could then have a real team to support like the Devils...

oh, no you di'int!

Terminate MSG's OWNERSHIP of the rangers....not the rangers.

Evertonius | 06/20/08, 12:04 PM

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What you say may be true, but the article said

"the league could pursue punishment ranging from a fine to suspension to a termination of the Rangers' franchise. "

Notice it said franchise and note ownership. The way I read it yesterday, the NHL could push for change of ownership if it chose, but it may also be in its power to terminate the franchise.

Notice it said franchise and note ownership. The way I read it yesterday, the NHL could push for change of ownership if it chose, but it may also be in its power to terminate the franchise.
Slakdawg | 06/20/08

you are correct, I saw it characterized as a change of ownership yesterday but this article clearly states termination of the franchise...RIDICULOUS...but with Bettman running things, you never know.

I am no ranger fan, but I cannot think of anything stupider or more damaging to an already severly damaged league than terminating that franchise.

list of stupid bettman moves;

1. terminating NYR
2. allowing a team called "the mighty ducks" to name themselves after a kids hockey movie by disney (who coincidentally own the team of the same name in some sort of brilliant marketing scheme)
3. daring to show his sniveling face during the stanley cup presentation (and trembling all the while)

the fact that the nhl now controls the websites they blow give the rangers what they want and leave them alone throw them out of the league come on bettmans and ****hol@ i enjoy my flyers rangers rivlery

lets go flyers 08-09

I would like to think that, if Bettman came on here and read what people have to say about him, he would shrivel up and disappear ... but I fear it is a faint hope.

Oilers....can he read?

Well TR ..... I kind of assumed .... with him being Commissioner and all ...
Do you think maybe not?

I would like to think that, if Bettman came on here and read what people have to say about him, he would shrivel up and disappear ... but I fear it is a faint hope.
Oilers4Ever

If I can be serious for one moment (you have no idea how tough that is for me)
People like Bettman (and Mayor Bloomberg in NYC) never think they're doing anything wrong, that everybody ELSE is wrong, so reading these threads would do nothing to alter his mindset. Bad spelling aside, GAGS12 has a point. The league controls all league matters, including publicity. Bettman was trying to emulate the NFL/MLB, and when the vote was taken, there were 3 dissents, one of those being the NYR.
I think this will be Bettman's downfall. If it isn't, than the league should just fold it's tents. Maybe we can get another WHA going, as this is getting out of hand like it was back then.

BETTMAN S***S

on another note,
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Can we get Yao to just step on Gary already?, now he's just being stupid. Putting teams in Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky and keeping them, but you're going to remove a huge hockey market. Gary, you are the weakest link, goodbye.