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The ones responsible remain unscathed

By Ray Ratto
Special to ESPN.com

Wednesday, February 16, 2005

Well, we have a winner in the NHL's Great Lemming-Off. Bud Selig. The baseball commissioner, who has been a magnet for public abuse through much of his tenure, comes off like Doctor Suave when compared with Gary Bettman. Then again, Bettman has merely done what he has been told to do. So when he stood before an incredulous continent to explain as best he could why the National Hockey League has shut itself down, he was doing so for 30 folks standing behind the curtain nodding a ...

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