Bosc wrote:
Not sure if Dryden touches on this or not but the thing with blaming Bettman is that...he's hired by and takes directions from the owners/BOG. Hopefully Dryden's taking them and the dinosaurs in the head office(and the competition committee?) to task. The whole lawyer-speak/complete denial though with the concussion issue...fuck off Bettman.
He does make it very clear that Bettman works for the owners, and answers to them. He says early on in the rant against him that Bettman is mainly there to make the owners money, and has really excelled at that. He also says the owners look at players as assets or liabilities, and talks about how the owners want to keep younger players around, since they demand less to play in the league, and older guys typically want more, so the owners care less about them. So he does take them to task some, but he really takes Bettman behind the woodshed for most of that chapter, saying he should also be looking out for the players, aka, talent in the league. And Dryden also discusses how the owners can't save themselves from themselves, which is why there have been lockouts a salary cap, and yet we still have overpaid players... So he says Bettman ought to be the one keeping things better for everyone for the long term, ie., concussion reductions.