As if 2020 wasn’t weird enough, the one-impossible has now happened: hockey fans like...Gary Bettman?
In the latest SB Nation Reacts survey, fans were asked if they were confident in NHL commissioner Gary Bettman. Despite being booed on sight, and being blamed for any attendance ill anywhere (even though the NHL’s expansion to southern markets and a coast-to-coast U.S. footprint began in the 1960s), hockey fans actually gave Bettman a vote of confidence. More than 50 percent said they trust the commissioner.
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Putting this in particularly jarring relief, respondents said that they would rather have Bettman than any other commissioner among the four major leagues.