NHL commissioner Gary Bettman and deputy commissioner Bill Daly gave a wide-ranging presser Wednesday afternoon in Las Vegas, taking media questions mostly around the expansion process, which the league's board of governor's has officially decided to open this summer.
Opening the process only means that they will accept formal applications now -- and not, as they repeatedly stressed, that they will definitely add teams, nor that they know how many teams they'll add if and when they do expand.
But they are expanding.
A few pertinent notes from Daly and Bettman's comments:
- Officially they are accepting applications in a window this July and August.