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Gary Bettman had wrapped up his post-podium chat with reporters and vanished, but his deputy commissioner Bill Daly was still talking about the league’s various slow-burning fires — Phoenix, which continues to smolder towards a conclusion, and New Jersey, where Daly admitted the National Hockey League has advanced the Devils a share of future league revenues to keep the franchise operating — when a white-haired man with sharp blue eyes appeared at the other end of the room and was immediately bathed in the soothing light of television cameras. It was not an adversarial appearance, or even a declaration of anything much, but Don Fehr was here, ready for equal time.
Fehr, of course, is the man who will sit down across the table from the NHL’s...
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