NHL Hits Pause on Expansion—What’s Really Behind the Sudden Halt?
How far will the NHL take expansion, and why is there a push for it now?
However, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman and Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly pumped the brakes on expansion talks, saying it’s still a process and still in the discussion phase, with the hope of knowing more by the end of the year on potential groups and where they want to go, if they decide to.
“We would expect that we’ll know by the end of the year which market they would prefer, but we still have a lot of work to do,” Bettman said when asked about a timetable and deciding on what city to pursue is an atypical expansion with one perspective from looking at two different markets.
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