Capitals forward Tom Wilson met with NHL commissioner Gary Bettman in New York last week to appeal his 20-game suspension. The hearing, according to Sportsnet’s John Shannon, lasted a marathon seven hours. After taking nearly a week to review the transcripts, Bettman has finally made a decision.
Wilson’s request to have his 20-game suspension reduced has been denied. Bettman’s decision comes in a 31-page long PDF.
By Cara Bahniuk 2 years ago
Tom Wilson’s really, really long hearing is finally over.
Thursday, the Capitals forward met with NHL commissioner Gary Bettman in New York to appeal his 20-game suspension for a head hit on Oskar Sundqvist during the Capitals’ final preseason game.
Details about the appeal are scant, but Wilson’s hearing, according to Sportsnet’s John Shannon, lasted seven hours. Bettman will review the transcripts and issue his ruling sometime next week.
By Ian Oland 2 years ago
Tom Wilson was suspended during the preseason by the Department of Player Safety for for an illegal hit to the head of Blues forward Oskar Sundqvist. The length of the suspension was 20 regular-season games.
Wilson will appeal the suspension on Thursday in a hearing with the NHL commissioner Gary Bettman.
By Brennin Weiswerda 2 years ago
On Tuesday, the Hockey Hall of Fame announced that NHL commissioner Gary Bettman has been elected for induction as part of the Class of 2018.
Bettman, who was recently booed during a Humboldt Broncos ceremony at the NHL Draft, has been head of the league for 25 years. During his tenure, Bettman has been the author of three NHL lockouts — during the 1994-95, 2004-05, and 2012-13 seasons — with another widely speculated to be on the horizon when the current Collective Bargaining Agreement expires after the 2021-22 season.
By Donya Abramo 2 years ago
Everybody’s favorite NHL commissioner was in the house for Game Two between the Capitals and Blue Jackets: Gary Bettman.
And instead of sitting in Ted Leonsis’s Owner’s Box, Gary sat with the Capital One Arena crowd.
TSN Hockey Insider Darren Dreger interviewed Alex Ovechkin ahead of the Caps-Jets game Tuesday night.
After Dreger asked an innocuous question about the Olympics, the Russian machine had some sass for NHL commissioner Gary Bettman.
Several years ago, the NHL introduced goal reviews for goaltender interference. The league’s heart was in the right place with the new challenges, but officials’ determinations for what is and isn’t goaltender interference has varied widely. Lately, several overturned goal calls have caused exasperation and heartburn for many coaches, players, and fans.
NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman has led the NHL to three lockouts and is now the man behind disallowing NHL participation in the 2018 Olympics. Bettman, who is wildly unpopular among fans, is universally booed whenever he speaks in front of NHL fans.
But this year, something seemed different. Bettman, dare we say, is having fun with the negativity.
By Ian Oland 3 years ago
PITTSBURGH — The National Hockey League will not participate in the 2018 Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea. That was the emphatic statement made by NHL commissioner Gary Bettman during his annual state of the league address and media availability before Game One of the Stanley Cup Final. The IIHF and the Players Association had not yet closed the door. But on Monday, Bettman slammed it shut.
“It is not and has not been,” Bettman said regarding what the idea that NHL letting its players go was an “open issue.”
“I hope that was definitive enough,” he added.
Washington Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin had expected this day would come. As a proud Russian and huge national celebrity in the motherland, he wants to compete in the Pyeongchang Games. If you go over his many of his past statements, Bettman’s comments Monday will not alter his decision.
By Chris Gordon 3 years ago
Brandon Manning skates around debris on the ice during Game Three (Photo: Elsa)
Wristbands have now taken their place among snowballs and batteries in the infamy of Philadelphia sports. During Monday night’s in Game Three of the first round against the Washington Capitals, Flyers fans melted down, taking off the light-up contraptions given to them before the game and hurling them onto the ice after their team took 35 penalty minutes on one play. The Flyers received another two PIMs later in the game because fans would not stop throwing their LED bracelets, despite an admonishment from public address announcer Lou Nolan on a night with NHL commissioner Gary Bettman in attendance.
Sarena Snider, the daughter of Flyers founder and chairman Ed Snider who died last week at 83, tweeted that her dad “would’ve called the wristband throwers a ‘disgrace.’”
It was curious, then, that pallets of wristbands labeled “Game 2” appeared on the event floor of Wells Fargo Center on Tuesday, the day before the Flyers are set to play their second home game of the series.
By Chris Gordon 4 years ago
