Bettman Succession Talk Is Real - Just Not Yet

Gary Bettman is acknowledging that succession has been discussed, which is usually the kind of sentence that sends the league’s brass into quiet overdrive. At the same time, the message is that nothing is imminent, so nobody is dusting off the moving boxes just yet. In the NHL, that kind of carefully timed non-update still matters, because the commissioner’s seat is never just one job.