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I think people have largely come around on Bettman. The booing is mostly a fun tradition at this point and Bettman is very much in on the joke.
In recent years my biggest issue with him is the ridiculous lengths he went to to keep the Coyotes in Arizona long after the writing was on the wall. (Especially in contrast with doing little to keep the OG Jets from moving there in the first place, albeit almost two decades earlier under quite different circumstances.) He still doesn't seem to have wholly given up on Phoenix even with the team's de facto move to SLC. (Technically it's a new franchise that just happens to have inherited all the old one's assets, but it walks and quacks in a remarkably duck-like manner.) But still... trying too hard to keep a struggling franchise where it is, possibly against the league's financial interests, hardly seems like the worst of sins, especially next to the stuff from the 90s he gets blamed for.
The going conspiracy theory of biased-looking refereeing these days seems to be that it's got something to do with sports betting, not the league itself putting its thumb on the scales.
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