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Bettman hopes Coyotes don’t move in 2013

http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/b...-move-in-2013/

[The sale is ] complicated by the outside conjecture — and the NHL commissioner couldn’t help but notice the reports earlier this week that he has been in negotiations to move the Coyotes to Quebec City (something he says isn’t true).

“It doesn’t help because it creates dynamics, it creates expectations, there’s political processes, it gets fans either excited or upset depending on the report,” Bettman said Wednesday night during a sitdown between periods of the Penguins-Senators game.

“None of it is constructive. We’ve maintained all along that when we have something to say definitive we’ll say it. Until that point, anything else is a distraction.”