Maybe not a "rubber stamp", but I doubt Bettman ever considered changing the end result. They took their time to craft their justification, but it still started with the conclusion already set by his staff and then they reverse engineered their justification based on that conclusion. I mean, Bettman obviously didn't "think about it" for a week and then write that defense in a day.
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