NHL Commissioner
I Binged ‘Heated Rivalry’ In A Night time
… ‘It is a Great Story’
Revealed
The NHL’s prime go well with, Gary Bettman, confessed he binge-watched all six episodes of “Heated Rivalry” in a single night time … and whereas he admits it will possibly get a bit steamy, he says it is had a optimistic influence on the league!!
Bettman — the league’s 73-year-old commissioner — says the NHL has been effectively conscious of the hit HBO Max sequence that is taken the world by storm, and you may add him to the listing of followers.
“It was very well done,” Bettman informed reporters in a scrum earlier than Thursday’s sport between the San Jose Sharks and Washington Capitals. “The content, particularly for young people, might be a little spicy. And so you have to balance that out in terms of how you embrace it.”
Yep, probably the most buttoned-up man in hockey couldn’t cease watching the horny sequence — particularly as a result of it low-key replicated actual NHL moments followers acknowledge immediately.
Bettman mentioned he caught nods to league historical past, from Sochi journeys to the All-Star Sport in Tampa, and gave the present credit score for a way effectively it was put collectively.
“I thought the storyline was very compelling and a lot of fun, because I could see where they were picking at things that we had in the past,” Bettman added.
This wasn’t only a curiosity watch — he clearly was all the way in which locked in.
However earlier than anybody crowns “Heated Rivalry” as official NHL-approved programming, Bettman made it clear the league has to tread fastidiously.
Nonetheless, hockey followers are cracking up over the visible: Gary Bettman, distant in hand, crushing episodes of the rivals-to-lovers hockey drama deep into the night time.
