I just received and email from the Make It Seven team. Asking people to send a messaget to Gary “Mr Suck” Bettman. Here was the body of the message:

Supporters of Make It Seven,

With your help, we will Make It Seven.

Send Mr Suck a message…it will take you 10 seconds!

Mr. Suck pulled off a another first the other day…just by showing up he caused 20,000+ people to boo during the Stanley Cup FInals. Bettman is getting booed alot. This is probably the first time the Cup has been booed…and it is all because of Mr. Suck.

To make matters worse, Mr. Suck politicised the Cup presentation by talking about people ’saving’ the Pens. Lobbing about the Coyotes is just terrible at the biggest moment of the NHL season. Gary Betman, doing stuff like this is why people hate you!

It is time for a Top 10 list of why Gary Bettman Sucks!

1. Mr. Suck lost an entire NHL season
2. He let the Jets leave Winnipeg even with fans protesting
3. What are the other major sins of Bettman?
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Please let us know what you think are his top ‘bone-head’ moves…

<Update> Check out this great video of the boos Gary ‘Mr Suck’ Bettman received….

• In the battle for a seventh NHL team, the judge has ordered the NHL all sides in a Phoenix bankruptcy court to provide him with information around a possible relocation fee the NHL may charge for the Coyotes franchise to be moved to Hamilton.

The current rumours have amount being set at $100M! Crazy amount? Maybe maybe not…

The Anaheim Ducks payed the LA Kings $25M back in 1992-1993 because they were moving into their fan base. In 1992 the NHLs total revenue was only $400 million. So, the Ducks paid the Kings 6.25% of league revenue to move in on their fan base. In 2008, the league has revenues around $2.2B if they keep the 6.25% rule it would mean $137M! WOW! That is a pretty crazy amount of money to be given to the Leafs and the Sabers.

But wait, revenue is just one part of the equation…distance between the areans would also have to be  huge part of the equation. The Staple Centre is 31 miles from the Honda Centre. This pretty close and the Ducks had to pay $$25M.

The Sabers are 65 miles from the arean in Hamilton and the Leafs are 41miles from Hamilton. Because both are farther away, the percentage they have to be paid should be lower. So 5% of revenue might make more sense…roughly $100M…this seems to be the logical…but is it too much for Mr. RIMM?

Maybe the NHL and Mr. Suck will realize another team in Southern Ontario will be good for hockey and the NHL. Maybe the will realize the Leafs revenue has been increasing steadily, from $117M in 2003-2004 to $160M in 2007-2008. While the Buffalo Sabers reveune has increased as well but was starting from a much lower point, $51M in 2003-2004 to $76M in 2007-2008

Does it seem fair to give these teams over 50% of years revenue for Hamilton to get a team?

This could be debated but one thing I want everyone to know, the Leafs have a season ticket waiting list that is around 3000 names deep…and over the last two years no one on the list has moved. That is right, there is 100% renewal of season tickets for the Toronto Maple Leafs. The Leafs also have the highest average ticket price at $75 per seats…and even during this recession they have increased their ticket prices.

To recap, what the leafs have:

• highest ticket prices in the NHL
• highest team revenue
• 3000+ fans on the season ticket waiting list
• and a ton of scalpers who make a mint off leafs tickets

Can someone tell me why Leafs need millions of dollars if a team goes to Hamilton?

This is a great piece of information relating to the possible move of the Phoneix Coyotes to Hamilton.

James Mirtle wrote a nice post showing that the ‘coyoes only had 11K people go through the turnstiles, on average, every night. That is over 3K less then they announce at actual games…

http://www.fromtherink.com/2009/6/3/897211/the-coyotes-attendance-figures

Read the ‘good news’ from his post…

The good news? A lot of those tickets that weren’t used were at least paid for (this season anyway). Paid attendance figures are actually up significantly from where they were in the first season after the lockout, when the team apparently sold just 11,340 per game and yet announced attendance of 15,570.

Paid tickets went up this year? Something fishy about this…

Mr. Suck what else aren’t you telling the NHL fans…are the $200 a seat tickets in Toronto subsidizing the ‘coyote?

That guy is terrible…Ron MacLean sticks it to him a little bit… but man that guy is a weasle.

The best part is when Ron pulls out a court transcript to catch him in one of his dumb ass word dances.

Go here to watch this painful interview:

http://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/hockeynightincanada/hotstove/

Gary Bettman… YOU SUCK!

June 9th!

This is the day the judge will hear the case of relocating the Phoneix Coyotes. With a ruling coming quickly after the hearing. This is a result of Balsillie having said he will withdraw his US$212.5-million offer if the sale is not completed by the end of June. I love the bankruptcy court really does what is in the best interest of the creditors.

Now that they date is set, I wonder if we will see any protests or move by the Coyotes fans. This would be a great opportunity for them to show their support.  If Mr Suck wasn’t so dumb we won’t be in this situation. And the fans wouldn’t be suffering…instead Mr. Suck has put the US v Canada, Winnipeg V Hamilton, and Phoneix versus everyone… nice move Mr. Suck.

http://ca.sports.yahoo.com/nhl/news;_ylt=AtZCWZF9ewFyk7TCSl1FTDYJfwM6?slug=capress-nhl_coyotes_bankruptcy-274686428&prov=capress&type=lgns

Darren Helm scored an OT goal to send the Detroit Red Wings to the Stanley Cup finals. How big was Helm’s goal for the NHL?

Helm’s Goal was Huge

This save Mr Suck’s NHL from having over a week layoff before the finals. Mr Suck…you really owe Helm. Or maybe you were paying his paycheck? Is that why he made sure to score?

Looking forward to seeing this Pens V Wing rematch this year…not even Gary Bettman can ruin this series.

How low with Mr Suck go? He is pretending that ‘if’ the Coyotes had to move then Winnipeg would be the best place for them to go. Is anyone stepping up a bid to bring the ‘yotes to Winnipeg? Has there even been rumours of this?

Two interesting things coming out of the court documents:

In an affidavit filed Friday, Earl Scudder says that Bettman informed him Hamilton wasn’t an ideal destination because Copps Coliseum is over 30 years old, saying “if the team did return to Canada, it would be to Winnipeg.”

So Winnipeg is next on the list… that is great… but Mr Suck still have a vendetat against Ontario.

Scudder’s affidavit also says that Bettman said the only way a team would end up in southern Ontario is through expansion.

Read the full story at Yahoo! Canada Sports.

Ask your self, “Why would Mr Suck pit Winnipeg vs Hamilton?”. The asnwer is pretty easy, he is trying to divide Canada over where the Coyotes should move. It is hard to fight a united Canada but a split Canada falls perfectly into evil little hands.

Yes, the MTS Centre is newer than Copps Coliseum but Copps can seat up to 17,383 for a hockey game while MTS can only seat 15,015… so that mean…. WAIT NOW… I am falling in to Mr Suck’s evil plan to divide Canada! Damn you Gary Bettman…

Fight Bettman! Don’t pit Winnipeg V Hamilton. Instead lets change MakeItSeven… to MakeItEight!

Remember… it is Bettman VS the NHL fans! He is the problem…

I am really starting to believe another team in Ontario will bankrust at least three NHL teams…hear me out.

Having followed Mr. Suck (aka: Gary Bettman) for a number of years, I feel like I can understand how is ‘crazy little mind’ works. And trust me… it is scary. Here we go…

In the new revenue-sharing NHL, the salary cap is based on the total revenue from all teams in the league. And the salary cap has been increasing quickly (It increased in 2007 and 2008) So, the Phoenix Coyotes, with their TERRIBLE revenue are ‘artifically’ lowering the salary cap . By keeping the salary cap down, the minimum salary cap (MSC) (the 2008-2009 minimum team salary was $40.7M) stays low and and prevents more teams from going bankrupt.

If you replace the money losing Coyotes with a money making Ontario team the minimum cap will keep growing. Their are at least three teams in the NHL losing lots of money…they can not handle an increase in the minimum salary cap during a US recession.

Here are the three teams I think will go bankrupt. Their attendances are in the bottom five of the league. And their salaries are within 12.5% of the minimum…it would probably be hard to be much lower than this. Big thanks to Cap Central

With the average ticket price in 2008-2009 season at $49.66 lets look at the teams reveune; most NHL revenue comes from the take from tickets.

These three teams can’t be profitable and the 2009-2010 season will be worse for all teams. Except the Toronto Maple Leafs who are going to increase their 2009 season tickets prices.

There are two scenarios…

If Southern Ontario gets a new francise the minimum salary cap (MSC) will stay at $40M (or maybe even goes up). If there is no drop in the MSC and the three teams see a recession driven drop in attendance…well based on my math…these teams will be going bankrupt!

If the team stays in Phoenix, the MSC will drop. This drop would enable teams to lose less money and maybe hang around for a few more seasons. If NHL teams start going bankrupt, Mr Suck will finally be out of a job.

Maybe Mr Suck hates Canada, he seems to… maybe he hates hockey fans (ticket price have never been higher or maybe the NHL’s new team are pyramid scheme that is about to fall apart. Either way… Mr. Suck has got to go… his house of cards is coming down!

Mr. Suck does everything for power and ego…his ego can’t take another Canadian team nor the bankruptcies that would go with this team.

There are lots of tweets about Gary Bettman in the last few days. I am going to suggest we use the tag: #bettmansucks for all tweets about him. Comments? Is this too long? Other suggestions?

Follow me on Twitter @theonlysandman .

On another note, the Make it Seven campaign is reporting over 100,000 supporters!

In an effort to drum up some fan support, the co-CEO of BlackBerry maker Research In Motion launched www.MakeItSeven.ca. Nearly 100,000 people have registered on the website, according to Balsillie.

Read more here….