via TSN,

Frank Seravalli joins Gino Reda at the NHL Board of Governors meetings to discuss how the NHLPA is apprehensive to the idea of chips being implanted in jerseys and skates of the players and how the league is looking at Optical technology as another option. Seravalli also talks about how the league will be testing player tracking technologies at the All-Star game in Tampa Bay.

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added 2:42pm, from Dan Rosen of NHL.com,

The NHL is working to invent revolutionary player-tracking technology it hopes to implement for the 2019-20 season or, potentially, as early as the 2019 Stanley Cup Playoffs, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman said Friday.

The technology would not require tracking chips on the players, instead relying upon camera-based technology, Commissioner Bettman said Friday at the conclusion of the two-day Board of Governors meetings.

"We're in the process of working with some technology companies to invent technology that doesn't currently exist, because it's more complicated to do this than in any of the other sports for a whole host of reasons which relate to the attributes of our games, the physical contact, the sticks, the speed and everything else," Commissioner Bettman said. "But we're committed to doing it and we're investing a fair amount of money to do it."

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