Paul Bissonnette Jokingly Suggests NHL Game Rigging Controversy

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00:03 All right, landscape of sports betting.

00:05 We haven't had one of these happen in hockey.

00:07 Here's a first.

00:08 Mike, we've got a coach saying, hey,

00:10 maybe somebody was betting on the DraftKings account here.

00:13 We've seen this in all the sports

00:14 where coaches and players have alluded to this sort of stuff.

00:17 But here we go, the head coach of the Dallas Stars

00:19 saying that a goal was disallowed.

00:23 You know, a little innuendo toward a sports book here.

00:25 I wonder if a little slap on the wrist is coming somewhere.

00:29 Yeah, Craig, this was Paul Bizonette,

00:30 who was an analyst at TNT.

00:34 And it was just surprising, given the DraftKings,

00:37 for him to come out and say the ref is-- and maybe it's rigged.

00:39 Again, I mean, I know he's an analyst,

00:41 but maybe not closer to a coach or player.

00:44 But yeah, that was super surprising.

00:45 I wouldn't be surprised if they tell him,

00:47 you can't be doing this right.

00:49 They don't want that perception out there.

00:51 And it is there.

00:52 A lot of people saying these games are rigged.

00:54 The officials are against this, whatever the case may be.

00:56 Yeah, this was an eye-opener.

00:58 NHL has not been good on transparency with injuries

01:00 since taking business deals with sports books.

01:02 So this is something that, yeah, I wouldn't be surprised

01:04 if somebody says to him, you can't be saying that.

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