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North Carolina lottery players may soon get a shot to win with the Stanley Cup champions.
The N.C. Education Lottery Commission agreed Thursday to let executive director Tom Shaheen go forward with a contract with MDI, a subsidiary of Scientific Games Corp., to produce scratch-off tickets with the Carolina Hurricanes logo on them.
MDI has the exclusive rights to the National Hockey League and its team logos, lottery spokeswoman Alice Garland said. The tickets, which would offer team merchandise as prizes, could be in place before the new season starts this fall, she said.
Commission members, meeting by teleconference, were OK with the plan even though GTECH Holdings Corp. already runs North Carolina's instant-ticket and lotto-style games and Scientific Games was at the center of controversy over how the lottery was passed in the General Assembly. Three people employed by Scientific Games were charged in May with illegally lobbying lawmakers.
The commission also agreed to keep GTECH as its game vendors even after the company is bought by Italian lottery operator Lottomatica for $4.8 billion in cash in January. The commission hired a consultant and issued a 14-page report that reviewed financial and other information before making the decision, Garland said.
The commission also said it hoped to decide by next week who would win the contract to make draw machines and the balls for the nightly pick-'em drawings that will begin later this year.
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