Online Sports Betting Statistics Updated November 2026

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100 Ice Hockey Betting Statistics for 2026

You can misread hockey betting by treating stakes, wager counts and operator win as interchangeable. This page separates those measures and preserves the negative accounting results that a selective roundup might overlook.

Original state reports supply the observations. Illinois and Nevada label the category Hockey; Maryland labels it Ice Hockey. None of those labels is automatically rewritten as NHL-only, and these regional records do not establish a global market total.

Headline figures

How much hockey handle did Illinois record?

Hockey betting has a changing calendar, so an isolated monthly headline can obscure the market. Illinois publishes the sport's handle separately for online and retail wagering.

What handle was recorded early in the year?

The January online handle headline appears above. The remaining values retain Illinois's separate retail and online channels. Handle measures amounts wagered, not the number of people watching hockey or placing bets. The source labels this sport Hockey and reports parlays separately; neither label permits a claim that all activity involved the NHL. These figures use the same report version generated in November, with each activity month named explicitly. The generation date is not presented as the month when the wagers occurred.

What handle was recorded in spring and early summer?

The monthly sport tables supply a channel-specific account of hockey wagering. Dollar amounts retain their source precision, including cents, instead of being rounded into a larger-looking headline. The tables do not identify competitions within the Hockey category. That prevents attribution of a monthly movement to a particular playoff series or league without additional evidence. Retail and online handle also remain separate: combining them would be a new calculation, whereas the observations here reproduce the regulator's published subtotals.

What handle was recorded later in summer?

The August online headline appears above. The summer observations show reported activity in the source's Hockey category even during a quieter part of the sporting calendar. They do not reveal which competitions or future events attracted the wagers. A low amount cannot be interpreted as the disappearance of hockey betting, just as a large month does not identify unique customers. The figures describe licensed Illinois activity only and cannot be scaled into a United States or worldwide total from this evidence.

How many hockey wagers did Illinois record?

Transaction counts add information that handle alone cannot provide. A wager count measures betting activity, while a customer count would require a different dataset.

What counts were recorded early in the year?

The January online count appears in Main Takeaways. The other early-year values come from the regulator's wager-details table, not its handle table. They should therefore be read as recorded transactions in the Hockey column instead of currency amounts or unique accounts. One person may place several wagers, and the report does not identify how many bettors account for the total. The retail and online subtotals are reproduced separately without an inferred average stake or a calculated customer estimate.

What counts were recorded in spring and early summer?

These counts use the same source classification throughout the period. They can be compared within a channel as a descriptive activity series, but they cannot explain why customers wagered or which hockey competition generated the change. The report does not provide an NHL-only count in this column. Parlays have their own classification, so readers also should not assume these figures include every multi-sport ticket containing a hockey selection. That distinction counts when comparing this series with a wider sportsbook headline.

What counts were recorded later in summer?

The August online count is showed above. The remaining summer observations retain their transaction unit and channel labels. Comparing a count with handle may prompt useful questions, but the source does not establish how stake sizes are distributed across customers. An average would conceal that distribution and is not substituted for an original observation here. The monthly records also do not distinguish new bettors from returning ones. Those customer-level questions require account-level research that this administrative series does not provide.

What ice-hockey stakes and payouts did Maryland report?

Maryland names Ice Hockey directly in its monthly sport table. The state combines channels in this row, which makes its scope different from Illinois's online-only observations.

What did early-year accounts record?

January's stakes headline appears above. The following observations use the first monthly Ice Hockey table in each original report. The later fiscal-year table is cumulative and is excluded from this monthly series. February's accessible report displays whole dollars, while the other workbooks preserve cents. Its payout amount and hold are taken directly from the source instead of inferred from a rounded ratio. None of these combined-channel values is automatically an NHL-only statistic or a count of individual bettors.

What did spring and early-summer accounts record?

The monthly stakes and payouts provide separate views of activity in Maryland's Ice Hockey category. Payouts describe money returned to players, while stakes describe money wagered. Their relationship can vary across reporting windows, and the aggregate table does not identify the settlements behind a particular result. The observations retain the original monthly periods and do not divide by scheduled games. Such a calculation would need evidence about which competitions and wager types were included in the account.

What did the latest monthly accounts record?

The September stakes headline appears above. Summer and September payouts complete the same combined-channel comparison. These values should not be set beside an Illinois online-only figure as if geography were the only difference. The reporting boundary differs too. A smaller month can reflect the amount and mix of wagering without establishing any change in the number of hockey fans. The original table also provides no breakdown by customer age, league or individual team, so those explanations are left open.

What did Maryland's ice-hockey hold show?

A retained dollar amount and a hold percentage are different measurements. Maryland's published figures include a negative month, which must remain visible to interpret the series honestly.

What hold was reported early in the year?

The February hold-rate headline appears above. Dollar hold is the retained betting amount before broader business expenses, while the rate is the source's reported percentage. The article reproduces both directly. February's whole-dollar table has different display precision from the workbooks, so it should not be used to manufacture a more precise ratio than the regulator published. A small hold rate also does not establish a bettor's expected return or the terms available on any particular hockey wager.

What hold was reported in spring and early summer?

The June negative-rate headline appears above. The corresponding dollar result and the surrounding months use the same Ice Hockey category. A negative hold describes an operator accounting outcome within the reporting window, not an investment return available to every customer. The source does not identify which specific bets or settlements caused it. Gross hold is also distinct from company earnings after payroll, marketing, tax and other costs. Those business expenses cannot be inferred from the sport row.

What hold was reported in summer and September?

The latest published hold observations retain their original month, amount and percentage. A high ratio on little wagering may still correspond to a relatively small dollar result. Neither measure should therefore replace the other in a headline. The source does not divide this sport row into online and retail, and its combined-channel rate cannot be assigned to an individual bookmaker. The percentages are not averaged across months, which would give small and large wagering months an unjustified equal weight.

What did Nevada's earlier hockey accounts show?

Nevada's sport accounts demonstrate why signed monthly results matter. The report publishes operator win and a win percentage, including extreme negative ratios in low-activity periods.

What did July and August 2025 record?

July's negative win-percentage headline appears above. These signed observations are taken from the statewide all-nonrestricted-locations Hockey row. The original win amounts are expressed in thousands and are converted to dollars without adding precision. A negative ratio is an accounting result, not a promised customer return. The monthly report does not explain the individual settlements behind each extreme value. It would be misleading to invent a specific cause from the sign alone or silently remove an inconvenient offseason result.

What did September and October 2025 record?

The older monthly observations retain the regulator's sport label and statewide reporting scope. They are operator win, not handle, and their percentages come from the published win-percent column instead of the adjacent percentage-change column. The separate mobile subtotal covers every sport, so it is not used to manufacture a hockey-only mobile estimate. These accounting distinctions are necessary before making comparisons with Maryland hold or Illinois stakes. The series does not identify the league or competition behind individual wagers.

What did the year-end and annual columns record?

The calendar-year operator-win headline appears above. The other annual figure comes from December's twelve-month column, which covers the calendar year instead of a hockey season. It is not an arithmetic average of monthly rates. The late-year monthly observations remain separate snapshots within that annual period. Those scopes overlap intentionally for interpretation and must never be added together. The source's signed values are preserved, and operator win is not presented as business profit after expenses or as the amount customers wagered.

What did Nevada's current hockey accounts show?

The newer Nevada series continues the same accounting definitions into the current year. Reading the full sequence is more informative than selecting only months with positive operator results.

What did January through March record?

The current-year observations use the first statewide all-nonrestricted-locations table in each report. The following table covers a narrower revenue range and is not substituted for the statewide result. Operator win amounts retain their original sign and source precision. The percentage is the reported win ratio, not annual growth. These distinctions prevent a visually adjacent column or table from changing the meaning of a statistic. Hockey-specific mobile figures are not available in the all-sport mobile subtotal.

What did April through June record?

These monthly hockey outcomes come from the same statewide row and reporting definition. The figures do not distinguish an NHL game from another hockey competition or show which customer groups placed wagers. They also do not isolate the contribution of future-event settlements. The source publishes the account, not a causal explanation of it. Dollar win and win percentage are retained as separate original measurements, while any comparison across states must respect the different channel and reporting boundaries used elsewhere on this page.

What did July through September record?

July's win-percentage and September's dollar-win headlines appear above. The remaining observations preserve the extreme signed summer accounting results instead of smoothing them away. These percentages are not a forecast, a typical bookmaker margin or a return a bettor could obtain. They describe each source-defined reporting month. The table does not disclose individual settlements or unique customers, so it cannot explain exactly why the ratio moved. The annual and quarterly columns visible in the figure are not added to these monthly values.

Glossary

Methodology and sources

Every figure on this page comes from the organisation that produced it: regulators, statistics offices, public bodies, research institutes, and companies reporting their own data or surveys. Each one links to the original report or dataset and carries its release date. Survey results keep their population and fieldwork period, and financial figures keep the measure the producer used. Figures from different producers are not added together or ranked against each other. The page is reviewed monthly and updated when a producer releases newer data.