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NEW YORK (AP) — The NHL announced a multiyear agreement Monday to provide MGM Resorts International with data for use in betting Womens Anze Kopitar Jersey , the second major U.S. professional sports league to strike a deal with the casino giant since the Supreme Court opened the way for expanded gambling last spring.Las Vegas-based MGM is the league’s first official sports betting partner, just as it is with the NBA and WNBA. That deal was reached in July.As part of the agreement, MGM gains access to proprietary NHL data that could eventually include puck and player tracking information once that goes through a testing phase. Access to that data will allow MGM to provide customized game details along with betting opportunities for U.S. customers where gambling is legally available.The data will not be exclusive to MGM. The NHL is not getting a cut of gambling profits, but other terms were not disclosed.“The new sports betting landscape presents a unique opportunity for fan engagement utilizing technology and data that are exclusive to our league,” NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman said. “Fan engagement, technological advancement and innovation are paramount to our progressive approach and will be at the forefront of everything we do.”MGM and other casino operators are moving aggressively to capitalize on the U.S. sports betting market, which is expanding after the Supreme Court ruled in May that states could take sports bets if they wanted. MGM has made a series of significant moves, including the multiyear deal with the NBA and WNBA.Bettman and MGM Resorts Chairman and CEO Jim Murren said the NHL’s agreement differs from that with the NBA.“I’m led to believe by Jim that our deal is more encompassing and includes basic sponsorship that we have together,” Bettman said.The deal will include promotions during the league’s marquee events, including the Stanley Cup playoffs, the All-Star game and the Winter Classic.“We couldn’t be more excited to enter into this historic partnership with the NHL,” Murren said.Bettman said player tracking will be implemented next season.“That’s been the plan,” he said. “While we’ve tested it in some forms at the World Cup, that was 16 games in two weeks at one arena. Having to scale this for 1,271 regular season games in 31 arenas is a little bit harder.”There are no plans to change the way teams report player injuries, which are often described only in generic terms like upper-body or lower-body.“Our players tend to play hurt,” Bettman said. “I’m not sure we have any interest in changing our reports. We’re comfortable with the way things are because it’s important to the well-being of our players. We don’t want them targeted when they’re playing injured.”Bettman said the league and the NHL Players’ Association will split the “fixed revenue” generated by the partnership with MGM Authentic Derek Forbort Jersey Kids , as the collective bargaining agreement calls for. Bettman cited a report commissioned by the American Gaming Association that estimated expanded sports betting could increase league revenue by more than $200 million.Bettman also said the deal with MGM would not preclude teams from striking deals with individual sports books. Earlier this year, bookmaker William Hill struck deals to do promotional work and post odds at the home arenas of the Las Vegas Golden Knights and the New Jersey Devils.NHL executive vice president and chief revenue officer Keith Wachtel said being able to provide enhanced data and analytics to MGM will allow “some creative and unique things that don’t really exist in the sport right now.”“The more data and analytics that a gaming operator can have, the better it will be in enabling them to set odds,” Wachtel told The Associated Press. “Whether or not they’re using the data for actual purposes of creating prop bets and things like that certainly is something (that’s possible). But more importantly, they’re going to use it to be able to set odds and proper odds that they’re going to be able to create.”In an email to The Associated Press, NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly said MGM “will access (NHL data) through our third party vendor, SportRadar. That may or may not change in the future.” SportRadar also provides NBA data.Some leagues, including Major League Baseball and the NBA, had called for an “integrity fee” — essentially, states would give leagues a cut of the money wagered on their games to pay for expanded monitoring of suspicious betting and to protect intellectual property. The effort has been largely unsuccessful thus far.“We have no concerns about the integrity of our game, of our players, our officials,” Wachtel said. “We’ve never had an issue. Secondly, the integrity of the sports betting landscape is just as important to the bookmakers, which is why the NHL does not have a discussion and we don’t talk about this notion of integrity fees.”Bettman dismissed concerns that NHL players could be persuaded to gamble on or even throw games.“We monitor all of the games,” said Bettman. “Through third party resources. We watch what goes on, whether or not betting lines shift and the like … It hasn’t been an issue and we don’t anticipate it being an issue.”Scott Butera Youth Dion Phaneuf Jersey , 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 slap shot 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, which does not allow single game betting. The league is moving toward adding a 32nd team, in Seattle in what would be its 19th state (Washington).Bettman said the seven Canadian teams “have been working with the lotteries who control gambling on a provincial basis.”“I think that will continue,” he said. “I know there have been a lot of discussions about going to single game betting as opposed to parlay, which is what currently exists. And as the law evolves, you will see our evolution in dealing with it.” PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Carter Hart made 22 saves in his NHL debut and Shayne Gostisbehere and James van Riemsdyk each had a goal and an assist as the Philadelphia Flyers defeated the Detroit Red Wings 3-2 on Tuesday night and made interim coach Scott Gordon a winner in his first game.Radko Gudas also scored for Philadelphia, which snapped a four-game losing streak.The Flyers were playing their first game since head coach Dave Hakstol was fired on Monday, a more that capped a tumultuous few weeks. General manager Ron Hextall was fired last month and new GM Chuck Fletcher ended Hakstol’s four-year tenure after a 1-4 road trip was punctuated by Saturday’s 5-1 loss at Vancouver. The Flyers entered the game last in the Eastern Conference with 28 points.Fletcher promoted Gordon from the Flyers’ AHL Lehigh Valley affiliate.Dennis Cholowski and Jacob de la Rose scored for Detroit, which has lost four in a row and five of six.MAPLE LEAFS 7 http://www.kingsproshop.com/authentic-drew-doughty-jersey , DEVILS 2NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — John Tavares, Auston Matthews and Patrick Marleau scored in the opening 13:38 to lead Toronto.Nazem Kadri matched his career high with three assists and Mitch Marner and Morgan Rielly added second-period goals as Toronto embarrassed New Jersey for the second time this season and won for the seventh time in 11 games. Tyler Ennis scored two late goals.Frederik Andersen made 27 saves in winning for the second time in his last five starts.Sami Vatanen and Nico Hischier scored for the struggling Devils, who are 3-6-6 in their last 15 games. Keith Kinkaid gave up five goals on 21 shots before being lifted with New Jersey down 5-1 after 40 minutes.PANTHERS 5, SABRES 2BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Evgenii Dadonov had two goals and an assist to pace Florida.Troy Brouwer, Aleksander Barkov and Frank Vatrano also scored for the Panthers, who scored three goals in a span of 2:44 in the third period. Roberto Luongo made 30 saves.Jeff Skinner and Rasmus Ristolainen scored for Buffalo, which lost to Florida for the seventh consecutive time. Carter Hutton made 30 saves.RANGERS 3, DUCKS 1NEW YORK (AP) — Kevin Hayes scored on a short-handed breakaway with 40 seconds remaining and New York rallied to beat Anaheim.Vladislav Namestnikov had a goal and two assists, and Filip Chytil added an empty-netter in the Rangers’ three-goal third period. Alexandar Georgiev, called up on Sunday after a stint in the minors, stopped 14 shots to help New York win for the second time in eight games (2-3-3).Pontus Aberg scored on a deflection in the second period for the Ducks, who had won nine of their previous 10 games. Chad Johnson, claimed off waivers from St. Louis on Dec. 11, finished with 21 saves in his Anaheim debut.SHARKS 4, WILD 0ST. PAUL Dustin Brown Jersey , Minn. (AP) — Logan Couture scored twice and Martin Jones made 26 saves for his first shutout this season and the 20th of his career in San Jose’s win over Minnesota.Joe Pavelski added his 21st goal for San Jose, which has won five straight games and seven of eight. Sharks rookie Lukas Radil had an empty-net goal and one assist.Devan Dubnyk stopped 21 shots for Minnesota, which has lost seven of 10.BLACKHAWKS 2, PREDATORS 1CHICAGO (AP) — Cam Ward made 30 saves in his first start since Corey Crawford was sidelined by a concussion, helping Chicago top Nashville.Defensemen Gustav Forsling and Erik Gustafsson scored for last-place Chicago, which had dropped 10 of 11. Patrick Kane picked up an assist on Gustafsson’s tiebreaking goal in the second period, giving him at least one point in seven of his last eight games.Kevin Fiala scored for the Predators, who dropped to 0-6-2 in their last eight road games. Pekka Rinne had 34 stops.STARS 2, FLAMES 0DALLAS (AP) — Ben Bishop got help from backup Anton Khudobin in a combined shutout and Dallas beat Pacific Division-leading Calgary.Jamie Benn and Radek Faksa scored for the Stars.Bishop was injured with 6:23 remaining in the second period when Garnet Hathaway skated into him behind the net. Khudobin closed out the period with three saves, and Bishop returned for the third, when he made 12 of his 21 stops. Hathaway was penalized for goaltender interference.Dallas returned from an 0-4 trip to win their fifth straight home game. The Flames had won three straight and eight of nine.David Rittich stopped 26 shots for the Flames.ISLANDERS 3, COYOTES 1GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Robin Lehner stopped 35 shots, Anthony Beauvillier scored his fourth goal in five games and New York beat struggling Arizona.Arizona’s Mario Kempe scored in the first period, but Joshua Ho-Sang answered and Brock Nelson put New York ahead with a goal early in the second.Beauvillier made it a two-goal lead and Ryan Pulock had two assists for the Islanders, who withstood a late power play to win their third straight.Darcy Kuemper stopped 29 shots for the Coyotes in their sixth loss in seven games since a four-game winning streak.BLUES 4, OILERS 1EDMONTON Womens Jake Muzzin Jersey , Alberta (AP) — Pat Maroon was credited with the tiebreaking goal following a replay review early in the third period, and St. Louis went on to beat Edmonton.David Perron, Vladimir Tarasenko and Jaden Schwartz also scored for the Blues, who have won three of four. Brayden Schenn had three assists.Jesse Puljujarvi scored for the Oilers, who had won six straight home games.Maroon’s goal came 2:19 into the final period. Officials declared the puck crossed the line during a goal-mouth scramble, even though initially no goal was called on the ice.LIGHTNING 5, CANUCKS 2VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Nikita Kucherov had a goal and an assist to reach 50 points this season and lead Tampa Bay.A feisty Canucks squad kept pace with Tampa Bay in a heated game marked by a flurry of fights, but couldn’t overpower the top team in the NHL.Cedric Paquette, Adam Erne, Steven Stamkos and Ondrej Palat also scored for the Lightning (26-7-2). Tampa Bay has not lost in regulation since Nov. 27.Tyler Motte and Chris Tanev had the goals for the Canucks (16-17-4).Anders Nilsson stopped 34 of 38 shots for Vancouver, and Andrei Vasilevskiy made 36 saves for Tampa Bay.KINGS 4, JETS 1LOS ANGELES (AP) — Austin Wagner scored twice and Los Angeles snapped a four-game losing streak.Alex Iafallo and Nate Thompson each had a goal and Jonathan Quick made 27 saves for the Kings, who ended Winnipeg’s five-game winning streak.Mathieu Perreault scored for the fifth straight game and Connor Hellebuyck stopped 27 shots as the Jets lost for only the second time in 11 games. Winnipeg also had won five in a row on the road.