NEW YORK — ICEBERG co-founder Vlad Martynov leaned forward in his chair on the suite level at Madison Square Garden to make his point about the New York Islanders using his hockey analytics system. Yes, it’s a positive sign for the startup that according to Martynov, the Islanders this season have used and traveled around […]
This is a continuation of a series by Shayna Goldman analyzing the integration of analytics into hockey analysis. . . . . . As analytics and enhanced statistics are becoming more deeply integrated into hockey analysis, they are converging with the traditional eye-test. While some analysts have embraced the additional insights analytics can provide, NHL […]
In the midst of all the Snapchat Spectacles craze, the Minnesota Wild was the first NHL team to debut Snap, Inc.’s $129 mustard-colored sunglasses and give fans a behind-the-scenes view through a unique lens. On Wednesday, the Wild partnered with advertisement agency space150 to bring first-person social sharing to life. As the Spectacles’ embedded cameras wirelessly sent […]
NBC Sports Regional Networks and the National Hockey League have announced the offering of live, local streaming of games in addition to NHL pregame and postgame coverage. The streaming of local games replaces the streaming of just out-of-market games while the local games are blacked out, and it is available at no additional cost to […]
Starting as an offseason project, the Washington Capitals kicked off this season by rolling out their brand new Facebook Messenger bot on opening night of their 2016 campaign. The bot itself is built within the Facebook Messenger app, a technology that Facebook unveiled at one of its developer conferences by showing some examples that they […]
