How Hockey Bettors View Seattle Kraken

Hockey Betting Quotables

• “Studies have shown you’re 10 times more likely to engage in an activity if you have some sort of outcome invested in it, whether that’s financial or otherwise,” said Keith Wachtel, the NHL’s chief business officer and executive vice-president of global partnerships. (thehockeynews.com)

• "Our generation might have looked at gambling (as) just the term gambling is negative," says Washington Capitals owner Ted Leonsis. "Sports gaming to a young person has no negative connotations. I've been amazed at how quickly the stigma of gaming and gambling is draining away." (cbc.ca)

• "I'm seeing an increase in young men coming in with gambling problems related to sports," says counselor Diana Gabriele of Hotel-Dieu Grace Healthcare. "We hear from our clients that the current atmosphere of sports and gambling in our society is out of hand.
  
  "The commentators are talking gambling jargon and stats and that it triggers someone who's not a gambler as much as someone who is a gambler. It's going to be very dangerous." (cbc.ca)

• Editor's Note: BetMGM is a sponsor of The Hockey News.

To learn what hockey bettors think of the Seattle Kraken, we've enlisted the co-host of the THN Action Show podcast , George Nassios. The second of three 5-minute conversations is today's Kraken Reaction video.