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Originally Posted by valo403
Actually I think it states it perfectly.
He is an employee of the NHL. He is not a monarch. His job depends on his performance meeting the expectations of his employers, the BoG and by extension the rest of the owners. If the owners didn't want the NHL owning a team in phoenix they would not own a team in Phoenix. If Bettman persisted despite the owners wishes he would not be employed by the NHL.
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The NHL owners and its board are a disperate group of families, individuals and ownership groups of pension funds etc, as such they are unlikely to have much of a single mind for anything, unless things go utterly in the crapper. They will, to a large degree like most boards, do what Bettmen wants right up until they can him.