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Originally Posted by Boreal
This is patently false. There is an overwhelming majority of owners who own an NHL franchise because Gary facilitated their golden ticket. There is also a long line of Jim Balsilies amoungst others who wouldn’t or are still waiting for their chance.
He is the most power human in hockey and he has always been reactive rather than proactive because he thinks he is the smartest man in the room.
And you know what? He probably is the smartest.
However he can’t use his brain to adjudicate himself out of every problem, especially when his league looks like a group of insular, empathetically bankrupt, racist bigots.
He can and should do a lot more as this is on his watch.
It’s banal and tiresome watching him evaluate everything as either liability or a legal pissing match to sharpen his own ego.
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Please prove it then. It's astonishing how may people don't understand Bettman is an employee of the league hired by the owners. Not the other way around. He has as much power as he has backing from a majority of owners. Any major changes to the league are done so by ownership majority.