NHL working toward new player-tracking technology

Largely taking a back seat to the buzz surrounding the NHL's recent news out of Seattle, commissioner Gary Bettman revealed the league's plan to move toward groundbreaking player-tracking technology at this week's Board of Governors meetings.

Bettman said the league is working with - and investing heavily in - companies to invent brand new camera-based technology to track players on the ice, with the potential to be implemented by the 2019-20 season.

"It is a work in progress but we're very confident we're going to get this to work," Bettman said, per Dan Rosen of NHL.com. "And the amount of data it will provide in addition to creating opportunities for broadcasters to use it in real time is pretty exciting."

The NHL has previously used player- and puck-tracking technology at past All-Star games and the 2016 World Cup of Hockey.