from Kevin McGran of the Toronto Star,

It is time for NHL commissioner Gary Bettman to retire.

I mean this with the utmost respect, because I’ve come to respect and I think understand Bettman as a human being in my dealings with him over the years.

But for the love of the game of hockey, it is time for a new voice and fresh approach at the very top.

The commissioner of the NHL needs to be able read the room. I don’t mean a room filled with billionaires and their hockey-playing toys. Bettman has done the latter very well during his now 29-year tenure.

The commissioner — he, she or they — need to read the room at large. Times have changed. Expectations have changed. Society demands better. And society won’t be hockey fans unless society can trust hockey.

If it wasn’t obvious before — George Floyd, Akim Aliu, Logan Mailloux — that the NHL is always a day late and a dollar short on whatever the socially pressing issue of the day is, then Bettman’s handling Kyle Beach situation could well be the hill he dies on.

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This is not the first time in recent days where media members are suggesting this.