NEW YORK — NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said Tuesday he could see the league eventually hosting an eSports hockey league competition.
“We envision something that would augment a fan’s affinity to his team because ultimately I could envision a league-wide competition where each club runs a competition to see who will be represented in the equivalent of our championship but for our eSport game,” Bettman said at Leaders’ Sport Business Summit.
Bettman’s vision appears similar to that of the NBA, which announced last month that it would partner with Take-Two Interactive Software to become the first U.