Episode Details

Author Dr Norm O’Reilly talks about why the NHL makes a fantastic business case study, transferring lessons learned from the ice to the boardroom, why love him or loathe him Gary Bettman is a strong 'in control' leader, the future of NHL expansion both domestically & globally, why the Arizona franchise experiment is unlikely to die, how the NHL successfully led all major sports leagues into the Las Vegas market, the star power achieved with the book’s foreward written by Gary Bettman and its afterward written by Hayley Wickenheiser, how many ADDITIONAL NHL teams he speculates could be supported in Toronto & Montreal, the trends indicating that it won’t be long before there are more Americans playing hockey than Canadians [!!], he explains the ‘bag of cash’ syndrome relative to sports gambling issues, and he provides local ‘insider’ expertise on where to get the best Lobster Rolls in Maine!

Norm O’Reilly & Rick Burton’s 'Business the NHL Way: Lessons from the Fastest Game on Ice' is published by UTP Press and is available here: https://utorontopress.com/9781487508760/business-the-nhl-way/

TORONTO LEGENDS is hosted by Andrew Applebaum at andrew.applebaum@gmail.com

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