The Globe and Mail's James Mirtle reports that the NHL's considering taking a major step forward in terms of player-tracking technologies that will give teams much more data than what's currently available in terms of advanced and "regular" stats:
As reported by Marc Antoine Godin in La Presse on the weekend, the NHL is investigating a system that would put a small chip or RFID tag on its players as a new way to track their movements and collect information during games.
This, along with puck-tracking, would provide teams with the precise speed of players, their shots and passes, and even more elaborate data, such as which players enter the zone with possession of the puck the most, and which ones recover it the quickest in their own end.
The possibilities would theoretically become almost endless given how much data this kind of tracking can provide beyond what’s currently available.
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