Girly's right in that hockey is much less suceptible simply because of the sheer number of variables involved. Sure you could rig a hockey game, but why bother? There are countless sports out there with far less moving parts to get in the way. Crooked bettors don't need 100% guarantees to go ahead with a scheme, but they'll take a sport in which the certainty of the desired outcome is 99.9% over one where buying off one guy gets you maybe a 75% chance of success. I suppose there are prop bets on hockey that could work, an over/under on penalties and a payoff to a ref or player for instance, but that would send up tons of red flags as there simply isn't enough regular action on things like that to avoid suspicion.
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