NHL to announce strategic sports gambling partnerships on Monday

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Johnston added that legislation in Canada won’t allow this to take place north of the border at this time. He also said Monday’s announcement doesn’t figure to change the league’s stance on injury disclosure.
“Speculation that this will lead to a more free disclosure of injuries, like the one [Auston] Matthews just suffered, is not the case,” Johnston said. “The NHL believes its current injury policy will be enough, even with these new gambling partnerships.”
One remaining key area of interest is how player data factors into the equation, according to Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman.
“One of the things we’ve kind of been wondering about is the data,” Friedman said Saturday. “The NHL, can they sell data like player- and puck-tracking, to these companies for special bets, prop bets, on individual things? That is in the plans, but not immediately.”

NHL to announce strategic sports gambling partnerships - Sportsnet.ca

Was hoping more transparency around injuries would be part of the strategy. Hopefully more overall data will be made available for the general public and not just for those willing to pay.
 

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"The new sports betting landscape presents a unique opportunity for fan engagement utilizing technology and data that are exclusive to our league," Bettman said at Monday's news conference in New York. "Fan engagement, technological advancement and innovation are paramount to our progressive approach and will be at the forefront of everything we do."
Added MGM chair and CEO Jim Murren: "Fan engagement, sports alignment is one of the pillars of this relationship."
The Las Vegas-based casino giant is the league's first official sports betting partner. As part of the agreement, MGM gains access to proprietary NHL data that could eventually include puck and player tracking information.

Scott Butera, MGM Resorts' president of interactive gaming and a former Arena Football League commissioner, outlined how the puck and playing tracking data will help bettors.
"If I know one player is faster than the other, if I know one expends less energy than the other, if I know one has a faster slap shot than the other, it gives me information that I can bet," he said. "If I'm betting on who will score the most goals, I have that tool. Ultimately when enough data is collected on that, we'll be able to actually bet on that data itself. So you could have a bet on which player's going to have the highest average slapshot throughout the game."
Butera said MGM believes expanded sports betting will eventually be available in 25 to 30 states. The 24 U.S.-based NHL teams play in 18 different states, with seven more in Canada. The league is moving toward adding a 32nd team, in Seattle and what would be its 19th state [Washington]

NHL unveils multi-year partnership with MGM to share sports betting data | CBC Sports

Meh the data will be for exclusive usage of MGM.
 
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