Gary Bettman

“I don't think taunting chants at players on the other side of the ice is intended to be sexist in the slightest. It's like when you call a goaltender a sieve, they chant that. Is that now in...”

“In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not...”

“While players say they like the five-day break, they're also saying they don't like the compression that goes along with it, and that's something that is of great concern to us as well.”

“I couldn't do what I do day-in and day-out if I didn't love the game.”

“We don't tell the officials to change the standard for the playoffs, but as we all know, time and space tends to evaporate very quickly in a playoff game; there tends to be a lot more physic...”

“The Steelers run a great organization.”

“We'll have clinics and educational events and conferences to get more and more young players developing as hockey players.”

“We are not giving up on the Coyotes in the Greater Phoenix Area... The team has got a number of options and is going to pursue them, so nobody should think that team is moving other than out...”

“I'm not here to win a popularity contest.”

“What you want to do, particularly when you're dealing with a professional sports league and franchises and people's passionate commitment to the game and for the team they root for is, it ha...”

“When you look at the team that Jimmy Rutherford has put together and the players that he has, this is just a great story of excellent in professional sports.”

“I don't really think about having a retrospective on my high-school years. It's not something that, from a positive or a negative standpoint, is a driving force in my life.”

“If you want to know how I feel, I'll summarize it in one word - terrible.”