{"id":268550,"date":"2026-06-09T13:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T17:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/09\/the-technology-behind-player-and-puck-tracking\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T13:55:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T17:55:56","slug":"the-technology-behind-player-and-puck-tracking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/09\/the-technology-behind-player-and-puck-tracking\/","title":{"rendered":"The technology behind player and puck tracking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/nc\/charlotte\/news\/2026\/06\/09\/tracking-players-and-puck-nhl\">The technology behind player and puck tracking<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/nc\/charlotte\/news\/2026\/06\/09\/tracking-players-and-puck-nhl\">https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/nc\/charlotte\/news\/2026\/06\/09\/tracking-players-and-puck-nhl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-09 13:11:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"spectrumlocalnews.com\">spectrumlocalnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>RALEIGH, N.C. \u2014 The Carolina Hurricanes are back on the ice tonight in Las Vegas for Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Final. Regardless of where you are watching the game, technology is helping enhance the fan experience.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-indent: 10px;\">What You Need To Know<\/h4>\n<h5>\n<ul>\n<li>The Carolina Hurricanes are hoping to tie up the Stanley Cup Final tonight in Vegas<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>SportsMedia Technology has been enhancing the way fans view games for years<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Chips are placed in pucks and players&#8217; jerseys to provide real-time tracking and collect data like the speed of the player and puck<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>SMT\u2019s SPRITES application will use this technology to project the players\u2019 and puck\u2019s location in real time in Vegas, in Lenovo Center<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Whether you are a lifelong Carolina Hurricanes fan who has dreamt of another Stanley Cup Final since 2006 or a new fan jumping on the bandwagon, your viewing experience has been enhanced by SportsMedia Technology (SMT).<\/p>\n<p>SMT, headquartered in Durham, creates data-driven graphics for sporting events such as clock-and-score bugs, tickers, player and object tracking and more for many sports leagues, including the NHL, NASCAR, NCAA basketball, PGA majors and more.<\/p>\n<p>Chips used to track the players being added to the jerseys. (Courtesy: NHL)<\/p>\n<p>Since SMT\u2019s CEO, Gerard Hall, developed the first wireless data delivery system and real-time scoring for the PGA Tour in 1988, according to SMT\u2019s website, the world of sport analytics has evolved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReal time data is becoming more and more important,\u201d Hall said.<\/p>\n<p>For more than 20 years, SMT, has been a partner with the National Hockey League to provide crucial data for games. Through the years, SMT and the NHL have revolutionized the game-viewing experience for fans, but it has come with learning experiences.<\/p>\n<p>Back in the 90s, SMT worked with Fox to develop a better way for fans to see the puck on TV, as Hall said that was the number one reason why fans were flipping the channel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe decided the best way to do it would be we need to be able to track the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/nc\/charlotte\/news\/2026\/06\/09\/tracking-players-and-puck-nhl\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The technology behind player and puck tracking https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/nc\/charlotte\/news\/2026\/06\/09\/tracking-players-and-puck-nhl Publish Date: 2026-06-09 13:11:00 Source Domain: spectrumlocalnews.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":268551,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s7d2.scene7.com\/is\/image\/TWCNews\/Screenshot_2026-06-09_at_5_42_02_AM_Cropped","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268550"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268552,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268550\/revisions\/268552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}