Gary Bettman says puck, player tracking coming for playoffs

[Jack Lantern]

Interesting

Bettman: Puck, player tracking ready for playoffs

The NHL will have puck and player tracking up and running in the arenas of all 16 playoff teams this season, and the technology will be in all arenas leaguewide for the 2020-21 season, commissioner Gary Bettman said Friday.

www.espn.com

During his All-Star Game news conference, commissioner Gary Bettman said that puck and player tracking will be "up and running in the arenas of all 16 teams that make the playoffs this season, and all arenas league wide for the 2020-21 season."

 

[zack54attack]

Interesting

Bettman: Puck, player tracking ready for playoffs

The NHL will have puck and player tracking up and running in the arenas of all 16 playoff teams this season, and the technology will be in all arenas leaguewide for the 2020-21 season, commissioner Gary Bettman said Friday.

www.espn.com

During his All-Star Game news conference, commissioner Gary Bettman said that puck and player tracking will be "up and running in the arenas of all 16 teams that make the playoffs this season, and all arenas league wide for the 2020-21 season."

So Chicago will wait until 2020-21.

 

[Raskolnikov]

If you read the article, they have sold this data already to sportsbooks, so essentially they have made the fan and little guy even more powerless. Machines will be able to make more accurate predictions against you.

 

[Tater]

So Chicago will wait until 2020-21.

Yeah. ?

 

[Raskolnikov]

Yeah. ?

no Tater. NO!

We fight until its over. It ain't over.

 

[anotheridiot]

They had the girls wearing it in the 3 on 3 and not sure if all the men had it on. Probably end up being wifi availability in arenas too. I am guessing fans will not be allowed to keep pucks that fly into the stands anymore.

 

[LordKOTL]

They had the girls wearing it in the 3 on 3 and not sure if all the men had it on. Probably end up being wifi availability in arenas too. I am guessing fans will not be allowed to keep pucks that fly into the stands anymore.

If this was 1996 (you know the last time people wore clothes by Eddie Bauer--can't find the South Park clip...sorry)--then maybe since they had an actual circuit board molded into the Glow Puck.

If I'm not mistaken most of the technology 24 years into the future from the Glow Puck's introduction could be *printed* under the logo on the puck.

 

[MassHavoc]

Interesting that it seems to be purely data driven and nothing said about rules enforcement. Like off sides, goals. High stick. Any of those kinds of situations

 

[LordKOTL]

Interesting that it seems to be purely data driven and nothing said about rules enforcement. Like off sides, goals. High stick. Any of those kinds of situations

Good observation.

The real question is "Why?" It won't make the Refs' jobs superfluous--as yet a computer can't detect and penalize a coach showing appreciation for ex-goalie Ron Tugnutt.

 

[Raskolnikov]

intersting sport for this to come to a head.

Yeah...but hockey is so subjective and has tradition like swallowing the whistle the final 30 minutes of playoff games, things like that. To turn over any of that power to electronics would change the game forever. Seems like it should at least improve the goalline technology though.

 

[LordKOTL]

intersting sport for this to come to a head.

Yeah...but hockey is so subjective and has tradition like swallowing the whistle the final 30 minutes of playoff games, things like that. To turn over any of that power to electronics would change the game forever. Seems like it should at least improve the goalline technology though.

I don't believe you can completely take the human element out of officiating out of any sport, but the game becomes more fair and more level if you take the human judgement element out of it whenever you can.

To wit: if you have a system that tracks the puck in 3 dimensions, you can track the puck (a) when it crosses the goal line--irrespective of camera angle and whether or not it's in the goalie's trapper, and (b) whether or not it's contacted with a high stick en route to the goal (or a high stick period, but I digress). the system, knowing that, can automatically trigger the red light. You'll still need the on-ice ref to determining if there was something like goaltender interference, defender covering the puck, pulling bodies off each other, etc. But, in those cases, there's no need to go back to Toronto nor spend minutes reviewing footage.

But hockey in this respect is interesting because for all its subjectivity--it's changes a lot. No more two-line pass, for one. The trapezoid. Faceoffs happening in the defending end after a penalty is committed--hell, even the powerplay being negated because the non-penalized team scored were things that "changed the game forever". Couple that with the speed of the game and I don't see there being an issue with introducing a little bit of electronic help.

My $0.02.