alko
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Like all the other owners will make some unified decision that will tell some owner, he is not anymore welcome in their circles...
CASE BY CASE BASIS, as is with everything legal, unless it's a blatant violation of league rules or bylaws, depending on the violation, short answer is no....Like all the other owners will make some unified decision that will tell some owner, he is not anymore welcome in their circles...
Generally it is far easier to reject a potential owner than get rid of an approved one, the reason why the League fought tooth and nail against shenanigans in Phoenix.
I would not be surprised if the NHL bylaws / franchise agreement would include a redemption clause that would allow the League to redeem in case the owner’s actions and behavior would be detrimental to the League but the threshold for such action would be very high and require consent of supermajority of the owners. (See NBA’s actions in case Sterling)
Like all the other owners will make some unified decision that will tell some owner, he is not anymore welcome in their circles...
secretly record an old man saying some semi-racist views to his young hot girlfriend. that'll do it.
Donald Sterling
Being cheap does not warrant a forced sale. Have to do something really bad.Like all the other owners will make some unified decision that will tell some owner, he is not anymore welcome in their circles...
cause the co-owner had him declared mentally unfit
So they pretty much did the same thing that the MLB did to Marge Schott, so you answered the question I asked above. The league really can't do muchSo the Sterling case is about the only analogue I could think of.
I went back: it was a complicated set of facts. Sterling wasn't forced out, although the league had suspended him from being near the team and was looking into trying to force a sale. His wife got permission from Sterling to negotiate a sale, then Sterling reneged and said he didn't give permission, then there were lawsuits, then Sterling was ruled to be suffering from Alzheimers and wasn't competent, allowing the sale to be completed.
What we can learn from this is A: it's going to be complicated and messy; and B: who knows what the reaons would be. In Sterling's case, while he said some incredibly racist things about blacks (in a league with a lot of black fans and a predominantly black player base), it's not that what he said was illegal. You're allowed to say racist things in private (or in public for that matter). It was just that the PR for the NBA was so bad they were compelled to act.
What’s semi racist? It’s I’m either racist or it isn’t.secretly record an old man saying some semi-racist views to his young hot girlfriend. that'll do it.
Donald Sterling
What’s semi racist? It’s I’m either racist or it isn’t.
The only two examples I can think of for an owner being forced out are Donald Sterling and Steve Jobs.
The league's board of directors can vote to get rid of someone. Not sure if it has to be unanimous or not.
Either way it's super unlikely.