Nick Cotsonika Interview on Gary Bettman Media Call
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4.8 • 528 Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2020
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Rob is joined by Nick Cotsonika from NHL.com to discuss Commissioner Gary Bettman's recent statements at a Digital Keynote Interview With Leaders on the return of the NHL season. Nick gives his thoughts on the likelihood of the season coming back, what it would look like, where it would take place and what he took away from what the Commissioner had to say.
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| 0:00.0 | There is actual hockey news on Monday, May 18th during the pandemic. |
| 0:09.7 | The headline, NHL looking at eight to nine sites as options to restart season that coming |
| 0:17.3 | from the mouth of the commissioner Gary Bettman. |
| 0:20.6 | We have some actual news to talk about today. Nick Katsunik. back coming from the mouth of the commissioner, Gary Bettman. |
| 0:23.8 | We have some actual news to talk about today. |
| 0:27.1 | Nick Katsunika from NHL.com joins us. |
| 0:28.2 | I'm Rob Carlin. |
| 0:30.9 | The Catalyst Talk podcast starts now. |
| 0:37.8 | His spectacular history making continues. |
| 0:39.3 | It's not a dream. It's not a desert barrage. |
| 0:41.1 | It's Lord Stanley, and he is coming to Washington. |
| 0:48.3 | What's up, Caps fans? |
| 0:50.3 | It is actually time for another Caps talk podcast, and we are talking about news and possibly returning to the ice. |
| 0:59.2 | It's not definite. |
| 1:00.7 | It's far from definite, but it's something. |
| 1:03.5 | The commissioner participated in what is known as a digital keynote interview with Leaders Week. |
| 1:09.2 | That's a sports business conference, which is |
| 1:11.6 | originally scheduled to be held in New York, so he would have been doing that in person. Instead, |
| 1:16.2 | they did it more of a conference call. And Nick Katsunika, who works for the NHL.com, |
| 1:21.0 | who was able to listen in. And obviously, Gary Bettman is talking a lot about the return, how it could possibly happen, what it could possibly look like. |
| 1:32.3 | And keep in mind, and I'm going to refer to this throughout the interview and discussion with Nick, is this was not open to media. |
| 1:39.3 | No one got chances to ask questions. |
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