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Video of the Day: NHL All-Stars Analyze Gary Bettman's Hockey Skills

Feb 5, 2008 – 6:23 AM
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Greg Wyshynski

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The Score's "Cabbie on the Street" segments can sometimes produce video gold, and Cabbie struck the mother lode on this one: Asking NHL players at the All-Star Game to assess Commissioner Gary Bettman's hockey prowess. The questions escalate from assigning a score from 1-to-10 in praise of his puck skills, to asking what position he'd play, to pondering what sort of on-ice violence might come his way from the pros.

At its core, this is the kind of hockey culture elitism that Eric McErlain eluded to near the end of our 15-year review of Bettman's tenure on FanHouse: Would Bettman get this kind of flack if he had been born in Moose Jaw? On the other hand, if you're like me and believe that Gary Bettman as the public face for the NHL has been just as disastrous as many of his marketing initiatives for the last decade and a half, then there's something quite satisfying about Alyssa Milano claiming he'd make a better mascot than a player. Or maybe it's because she's Alyssa Milano...

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