The Athletic revealed today that the NHL executive committee is planning for Gary Bettman’s retirement. He spoke to the committee ahead of last month’s Board of Governors meeting and let them know that it should be on their radar. This prompted the committee to begin a formal process to find his successor.
Read the full story in The Athletic here: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6084164/2025/01/23/gary-bettman-retirement-succession/
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44 Comments
Bill Daly YOU are the new nhl commissioner
But do the executives want a fresh look of things?
The new commish will deny the CTE data just like Gary does. "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss"
Who are we gonna boo now?
thank god 🎉
Maybe a Canadian team may win a cup now.
finally then maybe a Canadian team can win a cup again
It will never happen.
That taped on NHL logo on the zebra jersey is hilarious. You're pure Gold Jesse!
I hope that his replacement is better, but I'm not optimistic after those quotes.
He will never die. Gary Bettman will never die, because evil never dies. Gary Bettman is evil. He brought to a head the ruin of hockey – exodusing out of Canada, stifling the game, being an absolute crony sycophant for his masters. he'll be here another 20 and in 2045 they will make heads in jars viable and that will be that forever.
The only way to get Bettman to lose his grip on the NHL will be to pry it from his cold, dead hands
YESSSSSSSSSS!!!!! 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Jesse… Please don't give me hope
Bettman's legacy will always be a strange one. He brought a lot of new teams and eventual success stories to the league. Vegas, as much as we hate them, is an absolute success and most of the new teams have stabilised into their new market…
Emphasis on most. Arizona will always be his greatest failure without a doubt. Atlanta too but they eventually bounced back in winnipeg. But he will always be associated with Arizona with just how much bullshit that franchise went through
Probably become a Canadian national holiday and I've seen the a article few months ago that owner's have already begun the search for when Bettman retirement happens
PHEW Well, good thing we have so many of his “friends” still in charge! Otherwise we might actually have had a chance of a progressive and successful league! Dodged a bullet!😂
I imagine seconds after retiring, George Paros will be injecting Gary with the Goblin Formula in a stasis chamber, and he will return as the Green Goblin.
Good
Maybe a Canadian team will win the cup after his gone.
HOPEFULLY HE GETS REPLACED WITH SOMEONE WHO KNOWS WHAT HOCKEY IS
By googling Bill Daly, he could be in the job for 15 years and then get to the age that Bettman is now
The cup is coming back to Canada boys!!
Leopold going off script and revealing Bettman's retirement is the kind of competency we've come to expect from today's NHL.
As the Rock would say ….. Finally Bettman is back to the unemployment line … take you retirement money shine it up real nice and shove it up you rudy poo candy apple @$$
hope he gets sued into oblivion on cte and all his crimes against hockey
Canada gets to win the cup again?!
Maybe Canadian teams will be allowed to win the Cup now.
Idk, i think we're putting a lot of faith in the competency of the NHL to say they dont do things by mistake
I like how you report on the business side of the NHL as well 😎 but one request… no more deploying the Zebra jersey please 😁
Hallelujah!!!!!!!!!
We can only hope!! Then who will hate Canadian teams in the league??
Bleep Blorp
Should have happened in 2010.
Canadian teams will actually have a chance now.
So in a couple of years we'll have a Canadian team winning the Cup for the first time since Bettman got in chair lol
All these "maybe a Canadian team can win a cup now" comments are hilarious. Maybe start with some competent ownership/management for anyone of the Canadian teams
COME ON!
CELEBRATE GOOD TIMES 🍾 🥂
Celebrate…and have a good time..
CELEEEEEBRATE GOOD TIMES COME ON!!!
As long as we dont get stupid rule changes, i dont care.
First: that jersey looks awful on you my guy 😂
Second: I saved a clip of Steve from a few years back screaming in horror at the prospect of Bill Daly replacing Bettman, guess I'll go fetch it again 😂
Third: How likely one of the two following scenarios would be: either this CBA agreement is Bettman's final middle finger to the league, OR WORSE, another lockout happens, both players and management aren't happy about it, they kick Bettman out (thinking enough is enough) and have the new commmissionner finish the negotiations? Hope it doesn't come to those two scenarios but I can picture it too well 🙁
Wow! Maybe a Canadian team will then have fairer chance to win the Cup? Like, if the cap didn't punish places with high tax rates?
This is the greatest thing ever.
He’s done some things that make me question his position as commissioner, but the fact that he loves the game so much he’s looking for a suitable replacement years before he actually leaves deserves major props
I’m going to predict right now that the season after he retires, a Canadian team will win the Cup.