The Chicago DAILY HERALD goes with the header, " NHL No Longer Pretending Sports Betting Is Bad. " The NHL's deal with MGM comes after Commissioner Gary Bettman for decades "said that gambling would be the death of sports and, specifically, professional hockey." The MGM deal is a "wise marketing partnership which adds revenue to the league." But Bettman "seems to have forgotten all of the awful things he thought about gambling." The National Post goes with: " It Seems The NHL Is Totally Cool With Sports Gambling Now ."

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