PHOENIX (AP) — NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman sat next to the former Arizona Coyotes owner in a downtown Phoenix hotel meeting room, trying to put a positive spin on the funeral for a franchise.
Late Friday afternoon, Bettman will sit next to the new Coyotes owner in Salt Lake City to bask in the excitement of the league’s newest city and a fan base that had been itching for another team to join the NBA’s Utah Jazz.
One day, two drastically different news conferences for the same hockey team.
“If you look back from the perspective over the last three decades, the NHL support for hockey in Arizona has been unwavering, to say the least,” Bettman said Friday in Phoenix. “And for anybody who’s been on that journey with us, there have been countless times when we could have made another decision and we didn’t. And so I hope everybody understands that this is a place that we believe hockey works.”
Thai plastics firm will pay $20 million to settle with U.S. over Iran sanctions violations
Son who offered £5,000 on Facebook to anyone would kill his father before punching the 72
Olympic gold is great, but athletes say some cash to go with it is even better
Facing a Republican revolt, House Speaker Johnson pushes ahead on US aid for Ukraine, allies
For the world's largest democratic exercise, one village's polling officers are all women
Michigan gets 3 years of probation for football recruiting violations
A painting of Winston Churchill by an artist whose work he hated is up for auction
I'm a vet and here are my 5 unpopular opinions about pet ownership
Don't call them 'sanitary' products! World
Fury as police barricade entrance to right
Federal officials are investigating a Rockies coach's cockpit visit during a United flight
How Britain's richest man is so secretive even his receptionist hasn't heard of him