Bettman says the Triangle will get All-Star Game, won't give date

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Bettman says the Triangle will get All-Star Game, won't give date

Feb 20, 2009

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NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said an All-Star Game will come to the Triangle, but he wouldn’t give a specific date in an interview with 99.9 FM The Fan Friday afternoon.

“We will have an All-Star Game here,” he said. “I m not prepared to tell you when.”

Scott Jackson, one of the co-hosts of The Insiders, followed up and asked for a specific time frame, asking it could be longer than five to 10 years.

“I can’t imagine than it being longer than that,” Bettman said. “We’ll get it in the next few years.”

But Bettman said he couldn’t say I that would be three, five or seven years down the line.

Bettman promised in 2001 that the Triangle would get an All-Star Game within five years if Canes fans bought 12,000 season tickets. The Canes reached that goal, but the NHL backed off from awarding a game, saying the market needed more first-class hotel space and more meeting facilities.

Since then, the Triangle has added the convention center and several upscale hotels.

Bettman said he had toured downtown Raleigh in his trip to the market and was aware of the new convention center and the growth of the market over the past eight years.

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RE: Bettman says the Triangle will get All-Star Game, won't give date

Rushbot - Don't you have anything better to do?

An All-Star game would be great! Bettman should do better at keeping his word but as far as the hotel and eating shortage around the area where the RBC center is, is understandable.

One thing not mentioned in this article, but may be in the extended interview, was that we will definitely not be hosting a winter classic. Bettman was asked by Scott Jackson yesterday indicating there was a stadium right across from the RBC Center and Bettman's reply was to ask what the average temperature was in Raleigh in Janaury. Bettman also made the comment that game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final in 2006 was the only sporting event final he had ever been to or witnessed where the fans were on their feet the entire time.

Love,

Towelgirl

RE: Bettman says the Triangle will get All-Star Game, won't give date

realistically someone should sue Bettman for bait and switch since he made promises about giving us this All-star game if the team sold enough tickets and now he's giving us the run around. We need to hold this weasel's feet to the fire. "a renewal of the commitment" doesn't cut it. he's got us waiting a decade at least since he first teased us with this promise. we've hosted 2 Cups and the Draft.

Time to threaten him with a lawsuit for breach of promise

RE: Bettman says the Triangle will get All-Star Game, won't give date

"Yes i realize that but it would be great for the State if it happened at any time."

Korn, the problem isn't whether or not it will happen, the problem is that it WAS supposed to happen in the 2002-2004 time frame as promised by Gary Bettman, we could have had that local income 5-7 years ago yet here we sit with no all star game date even set.

RE: Bettman says the Triangle will get All-Star Game, won't give date

Good posts! I agree with them.... Bettman is a weasel and says what you want to hear....But I will be there if it comes to Raleigh....also not holding my breath.

RE: Bettman says the Triangle will get All-Star Game, won't give date

Yes i realize that but it would be great for the State if it happened at any time.

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