Month: September 2025

Time to show Gary the door.

Here along the Lake -It is becoming increasingly difficult to argue in favor of activist Bettman to remain at the helm of North America’s greatest sport.

To list his career achievements beginning with the NBA would be too numerous and would read like an unreal resume, so just concentrating on hockey we have to understand what his role in the NHL is.

The Board of Governors run the NHL not activist Bettman who only stays employed by the whims of NHL team owners that make up the board, he serves as a “conductor” of sorts to help lead all the voices as one.

There are 32 owners not counting partners/minor owners and they need one voice to lead the league, so with much trepidation the board brought the third highest person running the NBA to assist in the NHL.

Right from the beginning activist Bettman was despised by players and fans alike, not the least was Wayne Gretzky himself expressing deep concern about a non-hockey person coming into their league and locking them out.

Player Chris Chelios even opined that activist Bettman should watch his back with veiled “mafia” consequences.

Activist Bettman did indeed help grow the league, but never in Canada, and did bring positive financial changes to the NHL, but then he became an activist for the intolerant left by pushing the “bogey man” of racism, but to his credit he did not allow the domestic terrorist group BLM into arenas.

Now activist Bettman has been forcing the league, players, and fans, to honor, promote, and celebrate sexual perversion by hosting homosexual theme nights, it is more than disgusting it is dangerous, which has contributed to the violence we are witnessing in our Nation.

This tolerance of perverts had led to a homosexual being hired as a video coach with the Blackhawks which turned out poorly for the player/s abused.

Then of course activist Bettman let Head Coach Quenneville and GM Bowman off the hook after only 2 1/2 of years of being “banned” for their responsibilities of the sexual assault to the young player by their video coach under their watch.

In a disgusting “public apology” Bowman and Quenneville said they now understand their role in what happened, and he have taken courses to have a greater awareness of sexual assault and the NHL “expects them” to be focused on effective and meaningful ways to address future sexual assaults.

Thankfully the Russian players told activist Bettman to take a long walk off a short pier and refuse to put tape on their sticks, or wear sweaters for promoting “homosexual night” because it goes against their belief in Jesus and the sin of engaging in perverted sex.

Activist Bettman has been for a few seasons now been talking about retirement, good, let’s get it done, the quicker the better so we can dispense with the activism and get back to just playing and watching hockey.

Brawny Black & Red, regular season, national televised games

Throwback Thursdays will include theme nights, music, and alumni appearances.

Before preseason we get to enjoy Fan Fest

The Hockey Holidays are almost upon us!

The Waiver Wire

Here along the Lake Learning how to utilize the waiver wire is essential to you becoming a successful ESPN FHL team manager, the waiver wire populates your watch list.

Constantly review the waiver wire for top-tier point producing players, players you want, players that are what you perceive to be on a “hot streak”, players put back onto the waiver wire from your competitors.

As soon as the draft is over is the time to utilize both the waiver wire and watch list, there will be players available that are good/very good point producers, but these types of players do not last long.

Once the creme de la creme of players are dispersed throughout the league you can keep track in an organized manner what good players are on the waiver wire at any given time.

At the end of the ESPN FHL season, review the moves statistic and you will notice that team managers that do not make any moves whatsoever are usually the bottom four or five teams of the league.

Players get hurt, get scratched, get suspended, lose confidence and produce less points, these types of players can be moved to the waiver wire and replaced with players that can contribute to your weekly matchup score.

Nothing is 100% and that includes making your allotted seven weekly moves successfully, for example you might not get back a player you planned on getting back that you placed on waivers.

The waiver wire is something you do not want to ignore, use it often and with a keen eye on the players that statistically can help you win an ESPN FHL championship.