It’s late on Thanksgiving, I’m dead tired and very much in a food coma so if this post ends up getting weird, please bear with me.
This morning, Bloomberg Technology reported that the Islanders have signed up with a Russian hockey analytics company named Iceberg that uses a proprietary platform to collect and analyze hundreds of data points during games using in-house cameras. Iceberg is also being used by Sochi of the KHL, Vaxjo in the Swedish Elite League and Red Bull Salzburg of the Austrian Hockey League.
The startup is bankrolled by Vlad Martynov, former CEO of Russian mobile phone company Yota Devices and managing director of SAP in that country.