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NEW YORK—Though other professional sports leagues have made concerted efforts to attract new fans in the emerging demographic, the NHL is just not even going to try to reach out to Hispanics, league officials said Monday. "Truthfully, at this point it's not even worth it; I have enough on my plate right now just trying to get youth hockey leagues to accept half-price tickets to these games," Commissioner Gary Bettman said. "I'm not going to tell Hispanics or Latinos they can't come, but we have a lot more to worry about than looking up the Spanish word for 'Penguins' or painting the puck the colors of the Mexican flag for Cinco de Mayo." Bettman added that before the league even thinks about such outreach programs, it has to figure out why, despite its best efforts, North American white people still haven't embraced the sport

Bravo Gary Bettman, not only are you doing what every commish in pro sports should, but your gettin at people who just plain an simple dont belong in the sport. This is like trying to market the MLS to to anybody in America. Everyone is all for this affirmative action bullshit, I'm totally against it. Now im not racist it's just that some people aren't meant to play certain sports. The last thing the NHL needs is a bunch of Honda Civic Zamboni's and nobody wants to see a sombrearo thrown on the ice if someone scores a hat trick, but hey who knows. You just never know what group of people are gonna emerge as the next great hockey starts but as Kabral once said, "Now do you think it's easy to just gradually take over every professional sport? Let me tell you something, man. Brothers have started figuring out this ice thing. Hope you enjoyed it!