Bill Hornbuckle

THE CEO AND PRESIDENT OF MGM RESORTS INTERNATIONAL SAT DOWN AT T-MOBILE ARENA TO TALK ABOUT BRINGING HOCKEY TO LAS VEGAS, GARY BETTMAN’S ROLE AND THE FUTURE OF MGM

WITH W. GRAEME ROUSTAN

W. GRAEME ROUSTAN: When you were growing up in New England, it’s well-known that you were a Bruins fan. BILL HORNBUCKLE: That’s a fact. We lived outside of Hartford, and my dad was in the insurance business by then, and anything Hartford north was all Boston, Celtics, Red Sox and Bruins all-in. I played hockey only, as a small child, on ponds. But I just love the Bruins, and I love the physicality of the whole thing. And I was into it in a big way. WGR: Jerry Bruckheimer told me that he knew back in the ’90s that Vegas was a great hockey market. So when did you start sort of saying, “Hey, we could do hockey?” BH: I met Jerry in 2005, when I had just become president of Mandalay Bay,…

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