Lazlo Hollyfeld
The jersey ad still sucks
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Exactly. You don't pay a guy $10 million a year to be a mouthpiece.To everyone saying he’s just a mouthpiece for the owners, that’s not really true.
He does what they tell him to do, and much of the time, they’re telling him to do what he’s advised them to. It goes both ways.
Bettman is the architect of the salary cap and current structure of the NHL. His job isn't to be a mouthpiece. It's to provide a plan for the NHL and get the owners on board with it through various tactics. There's a pretty good book written about him and all the strong-arming involved.