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NHL officials will start wearing Apple Watches on ice
The idea is to help refs have better situational awareness.
The Apple Watches will also be synced to the NHL’s Oasis feed, a cloud system that enables player tracking, game telemetry, and other data, which will ensure that all officials receive the same information. “We wanted to make sure that the officials had really good awareness and were able to keep their eyes on play,” says Andres de Corral, vice president of digital services at Presidio, a tech firm that helped develop the app. “As they’re doing all those things, it sounds crazy to say, but they’re also trying to find the game clock on the video board,” explains Dave Lehanski, the NHL’s executive vice president of business development and innovation.
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