Bettman Says Retirement Isn’t Coming Anytime Soon at 74

Gary Bettman is turning 74, and the league’s longtime commissioner is making it plain that he is not heading for the exit yet. That alone tells you everything about how much control he still has over the room in New York, where power rarely gets surrendered without a fight. For a man who has become as much a fixture of the NHL as dead pucks in November, the question now is less about whether he leaves soon and more about when the wheels finally start turning.