Following a Board of Governors meeting on Wednesday in New York, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman offered updates on an array of topics.

The biggest point of emphasis? International growth is taking priority over local growth.

“We’re focused on what we can be doing more outside of North America to continue to grow the game on a worldwide basis,” Bettman said. “That’s becoming an increasing focus and priority for us because we believe we’re the most international, certainly with our player composition, of the four major sports in North America and we think there’s a great opportunity. But even more than the opportunity, we’d like to see the game continue to grow.”

Bettman pointed to playing more games on foreign soil, along with new media agreements such as a newly announced partnership wit

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