NEW YORK (AP) -NHL commissioner Gary Bettman is skeptical of Jim Balsillie’s offer to buy the Phoenix Coyotes, saying he wasn’t sure the BlackBerry boss could gain approval of league owners.
The NHL stripped current Coyotes owner Jerry Moyes of the authority to run the club Tuesday after Moyes announced the team had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Balsillie announced a plan to buy the financially troubled team and move it to Ontario, where they were the Winnipeg Jets before moving to Phoenix for the 1996-97 season.
“I don’t know whether or not he could get approved,” Bettman said Wednesday during a discussion of commissioners from the four major U.S. pro sports leagues. “That’s, as I said, something I don’t get a vote on.”
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