At an abuzz arena on the Las Vegas Strip last week, hockey fans from Sin City and San Jose mixed with attendees taking time out from CES. Unbeknownst to any of them, the NHL was quietly testing new puck and player-tracking technology that it believes will fundamentally shift the game.
After announcing in 2018 that it was looking to track the puck at a rate of 200 times a second, and after strategizing for years about how to best track players, the NHL officially announced last week that it has partnered with JogMo, a maker of RFID tracking systems.