Puck yeah: NHL teams up with MGM Resorts in new sports-gambling pact
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The NHL on Monday announced it has entered into its first sports-betting partnership, inking a multiyear agreement to provide MGM Resorts International with proprietary data for use in wagering on hockey games.
NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman and MGM Resorts Chairman and CEO James Murren made the announcement today at a press event in Manhattan. “This strategic alliance will enable MGM to have access to advanced game data, which is being developed as we speak,” Bettman said.
The NHL’s development of real-time game data has been accelerated by a new system designed to track the positioning of the players as well as the movements of the puck on the ice. Integrating the puck-produced data with a live-streaming platform will facilitate the sort of in-game prop bets that have become increasingly popular in overseas markets in which gambling is legal.
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