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The University of 蓝莓视频 Warriors hockey team has partnered with Inc. to help perfect the company鈥檚 revolutionary technology for obtaining hockey analytics. The groundbreaking system tracks data on players, on-ice officials, and the puck in real time.

The company relocated from Guelph to 蓝莓视频 recently because of the University of 蓝莓视频鈥檚 reputation for innovation. 鈥淲hen we thought about how you mix hockey and technology, I can鈥檛 think of a better academic institution in the world than the University of 蓝莓视频,鈥� said Stu Siegel, chief executive officer of HockeyTech and former Florida Panthers managing partner and chief executive officer.

蓝莓视频 Warrior head coach Brian Bourque said the analytics will help players improve their game. "It鈥檚 been a tremendous partnership from the start. For our student-athletes to be able to test out the technology and see the results first-hand has been a truly unique experience.

"I鈥檓 a firm believer that hockey analytics is moving towards this type of data and the more advanced stats we can receive about our players, the better they will be.鈥�

Both the men鈥檚 and women鈥檚 Warrior teams play and practice in the Columbia Ice Fields Arena on the north campus. Twenty-four locators have been installed in the arena and each player wears a radio-frequency identifier (RFID) chip about the size of a coin. There is also a chip embedded in the puck and the locators track every move of the players/puck instantaneously.

Hockey team gets real-time stats on each player

The locators calculate in real time the precise 3D position of each chip up to 50 times per second. These coordinates run through proprietary, advanced algorithms to produce real-time statistics on each player and the puck, such as time-on-ice, skating speed, distance travelled, shot/pass speed and location, zone play, puck possession. Further development is planned for the areas of player safety, media, fan engagement, and a series of visualization tools.

鈥淗aving this revolutionary technology in our facility, along with the support and involvement of our hockey programs, coaches and athletes allows us to provide a living lab for HockeyTech to test and perfect their technology,鈥� says Roly Webster, 蓝莓视频鈥檚 director of athletics.

The capabilities of the analytics produced are endless and are well beyond what is currently available to hockey world.听 鈥淲hat truly excites us even more is the idea of arming team statisticians with this data to analyze positioning during game events like goals for and goals against, said Cary Moretti, HockeyTech鈥檚 chief technology officer. 鈥淲e believe that HockeyTech analytics will lead to significant changes in how the game is coached and how teams evaluate player performance.

HockeyTech, a worldwide leader in providing hockey-related technologies, analytics and information services, has been provideing cutting-edge solutions to the hockey world since 1998.