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Old 04-19-2011, 09:32 PM   #1273
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Originally Posted by valo403 View Post
There were certainly issues with Phoenix, but the manner in which things fell apart was completely out of left field. There was really no way to establish a different backup plan for a scenario that saw the entire manner in which North American professional sports operate being threatened.
From here it looks like Bettman didn't know what was going on with the original owner and Balsillie and didn't have any backup plan. That it got to the point that all of professional sport in NA was under threat, I'd call that incompetence.
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