The issue of how to share trading card revenue was considered to be one of the greatest stumbling blocks the two sides faced. In Ziegler's last season at the helm of the NHL, the San Jose Sharks started play (which marked a return of the NHL to the San Francisco Bay area after a 15 year layoff), sparking the NHL's next expansion wave of the 1990s. Gary Bettman (the NHL's first commissioner), replaced John Ziegler's successor, Gil Stein. Bettman quickly accomplished one of his stated goals by signing a five-year, $155 million deal with the Fox Broadcasting Company to broadcast NHL games nationally beginning in the 1994–95 season. The deal was significant, as a network television contract in the United States was long thought unattainable during the presidency of Ziegler. Ziegler moved back to his legal career by practicing in Detroit, then as alternate Governor with the Chicago Blackhawks before moving to Florida where he would remain until his death in 2018.