#gary bettman

It’s not that rare to see NHL players settle their differences by dropping the gloves and fighting each other on the ice, but when you’re a member of a team’s front office, you’re expected to harness some less violent methods to resolve any disputes. However, that didn’t stop one GM from trying to

Rodney Dangerfield once quipped “I went to a fight the other night and a hockey game broke out,” and while those brawls have evolved a bit since he uttered those words, they still remain a fairly integral part of the NHL. There is evidence that suggests fighting doesn’t actually do much to

Getty Image Plenty of hockey fans saw the writing on the wall when the NHL gave teams the greenlight to solicit sponsors for the helmet decals that made their grand debut at the start of the 2020 campaign. That decision seemed poised to mark the start of the descent down a slippery slope

There have been a seemingly countless number of unexpectedly absurd developments over the course of 2020 that make you think, “Ok, there’s no way anything could possibly top this” only for the year to almost immediately pull a “Hold my beer!” and introduced another twist that somehow manages to do

History is filled with examples of impressively bitter feuds between rival parties, and in almost every case, both of them will adamantly maintain that the entire thing could’ve been avoided if the other side hadn’t done whatever was supposedly responsible for sparking the dispute in the first