previously elaborated on the folks working in the Situation Room<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\u201cEvery game has a dedicated \u2018Logger\u2019 who reviewed and documented every zone entry, scoring chance, and infraction with the help of three high-definition monitors and super slo-mo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201c[In addition to the leadership group noted above, there\u2019s also] one retired NHL official who is a current supervisor and takes a turn swinging through the room on a monthly basis.\u201d<\/p>\n
Current NHL officiating supervisors include Shane Heyer, Marc Joannette, Mike Leggo, Bill McCreary, Brad Meier, Dan O\u2019Halloran, Rob Shick, Don VanMassenhoven, and Brad Watson; no details on which are in the Situation Room rotation.<\/p>\n
Kris King, NHL Executive Vice President of Hockey Operations:<\/p>\n
\u201cWe did a full renovation of the office over the last two years, but the genesis of of partially doing that was to build this new room. We did a lot of research, looked at sports books, looked at restaurants, looked at what things might work for us as far as a layout and this is what we kind of came up with. Once we started to decide how we wanted this to look, we were able to work with our IT people to get the feeds and the different things that would make this room work.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEven when I came in in 2001, there was no HD for hockey. We were watching SD feeds on 10-inch screens and taping them with a VCR at the back of the room. We were making calls on the calls that we could make. The ability to to obviously manage the games from here is better than it\u2019s ever been [as well as] the ability to educate our officials.\u00a0 Obviously we\u2019re known for challenges, reviews, and helping the referees look at their decisions and what they\u2019ve made in real time.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t hate your team and we\u2019re not out to screw you. Obviously when a decision is made, there\u2019s one team that\u2019s going to enjoy the decision or like it and there\u2019s another team that\u2019s going to think that they got jobbed. We don\u2019t always agree, but in the end, we have to make a decision.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cGenerally when we don\u2019t all agree, we stay with the call on the ice. That\u2019s what the general managers want us to do. Unless there\u2019s [\u2026] conclusive video evidence to overturn a call, we leave it alone.\u201d<\/p>\n
Daniel Cash, Managing Director, Sony Hawk-Eye North America<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a very complicated setup and system, but what\u2019s most important is that the user interface is as intuitive as it can be.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTechnology has advanced in the 10 years that we\u2019ve worked with the NHL and we\u2019re helping the NHL stay cutting-edge. With the 4K images that we\u2019re transporting back to centralized location, I mean that\u2019s not trivial. We\u2019ve worked very close to the NHL to to make that to make that happen. It\u2019s improved with the technology around. You talk about the different cameras, now we have different resolutions, different frame rates. We\u2019re improving with the broadcast in that regard.\u201d<\/p>\n
Those technological advances will continue as the league looks to find other ways to help the officials get calls right, including using optical tracking to determine accurate data on the height of a stick deflection or the precise instant the puck crosses the goal line or blueline.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI could definitely see a world in which we\u2019re leveraging those data points to augment officiating,\u201d Cash told the Press<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be very important to this room.\u201d<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Canadian Press recently had an opportunity to step inside the NHL\u2019s newly-upgraded Situation Room. The Toronto-based Situation…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-250640","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}