Canadian Gaming Association welcomes NHL sportsbetting partnership

The Canadian Gaming Association has welcomed the partnership signed earlier this week that is to find the National Hockey League (NHL) provide casino operator MGM Resorts International with proprietary in-game data for use by its sportsbooks.

Applauds ‘exciting new degree of participation ’:

Based on an official Thursday press release published by European Gaming Media and Events, the Toronto-based industry firm said the first-of-its-kind tie-up is utilized to gain hockey fans across the United States by allowing them to experience ‘an exciting new level of participation ’ at casino and arenas sportbooks.

Invitation to join single-event drive:

The Canadian Gaming Association then declared that it hopes the NHL will now join its campaign to bring ‘this same degree of fan experience to Canada’ by calling for the repeal of paragraph 207(4)(b) of the nation’s Criminal Code to create single-event wagering available to aficionados across its homeland.

Paul Burns, President and Chief Executive Officer for its Canadian Gaming Association, detailed that parlay sportsbetting has been legal across Canada ‘for years ’ until proclaiming that he hopes the NHL will engage with the gambling industry to ‘create single-event sports wagering a fact for Canadian hockey fans’.

Burns’ statement read…

“This really is an excellent illustration of the type of connection the Canadian gambling industry is looking for with professional sports leagues. We all know that Canadians like single-event sportsbetting because they’re wagering roughly $14 billion annually through illegal channels. We invite the NHL to function with our gambling industry to bring about the changes needed to understand the full financial potential of single-event sports wagering at Canada and provide Canadian fans the same expertise as their United States counterparts. ”