LOS ANGELES, Sept. 23 (UPI) -- NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman announced Thursday he had fined the president of the Los Angeles Kings for remarks made last week.
The Los Angeles Times reported that Tim Leiweke said on a radio show that he expected the NHL lockout to last all season.
He also called Bob Goodenow, chief executive of the NHL Players Association, "a bald-faced liar."
Leiweke, who also is president and CEO of AEG and Staples Center, said Goodenow did not give the Kings' players a true picture of his team's financial losses.
"They asked whether our numbers are accurate," Leiweke told the paper. "I said we have opened our books to the union, we opened our books to a season-ticket holder, we opened our books to the L.A. Times. Anyone who said at the end of the day that our financial model is not losing money is lying."
