Following the NHL Board Of Governors meeting last Tuesday, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman urged caution to the many NHL media that were claiming NHL expansion to Las Vegas and Quebec City were as sure a thing as a Steven Stamkos one-timer.
“This is an ongoing process that doesn’t have a specific timetable, and doesn’t have a pre-determined outcome,” Bettman told reporters Tuesday.
That was as about as specific as Bettman would get on expansion. But two days later at Boston Bruins Media Day, team owner Jeremy Jacobs — who is one of the most prominent owners in the NHL Board Of Governors — was much more specific in making it clear that NHL expansion may not be as close as originally thought.