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Twenty-three years after Fox’s glowing puck made its debut Womens Craig Anderson Jersey , the NHL’s next big technological advancement will be on display this weekend during All-Star festivities.NBC will showcase puck and player tracking as part of its broadcast of the skills competition Friday night and then as the centerpiece of a digital-only broadcast of the All-Star 3-on-3 tournament Saturday night. It’ll be the first chance for American hockey fans to get an up-close look at the system that could be in place as soon as next season.With each player and puck fitted with a microchip, the amount of available information could be overwhelming. Look for everything from bubbles over players’ heads to skating and shot speed to ice time and even a small trail behind the puck as NBC takes tracking technology in hockey for a test drive.“Eventually it’ll go to possession time and more advanced (data), but right now it’s mainly focused on speed, shift time, distance traveled, mph on the shot and virtually connecting players on a goal,” NBC Sports producer Steve Greenberg said. “We’re scratching the surface here, and what we’re able to display this weekend is not what we’re going to be able to display next year and in the future, but it’s going to be able to be a really good first look at what these chips are going to be able to give us.”The NHL privately tested puck and player tracking in two regular-season games in Las Vegas earlier this month, but this will be the first time the data is available for public consumption. While other types of tracking technology were tested at previous All-Star games and the 2016 World Cup of Hockey, this is something of a dry run for the radio frequency system the NHL has been working with developers to perfect.Much like the glowing puck was criticized by purists, there’s the danger of overloading fans with too much, too fast. NBC will experiment with how much puck and player tracking data can and should fit onto a TV broadcast.“It’s a balancing act,” NBC Sports executive producer Sam Flood said. “Think about years ago when the yellow line came in for the first down in football. It’s now universal. There are going to be elements that’ll become universal in hockey telecasts based on what we learn over the next period of time.”Kenny Albert, who will call the puck and player tracking-heavy telecast available on NBC Sports’ app and online Authentic Erik Karlsson Jersey Kids , likens this to the kind of ball-tracking technology that has become ubiquitous in golf coverage. He was with Fox in the 1990s when the glowing puck was perhaps ahead of its time but thinks fans are ready for puck and player tracking on TV.“We live in an age of information overload and people want stuff like ice time and the mph on a shot for example or how fast a player’s skating,” Albert said. “I have two teenage daughters and I don’t think anybody in that generation now just sits there and watches TV. They want information, whether it’s looking at their phone, their iPad, their computer, and there’s so much information out there.”Eventually, once the NHL implements player and puck tracking, fans will be able to take a deep dive into all the numbers and there will be an element of real-time sports gambling. But Commissioner Gary Bettman and other league executives have pointed out that the first goal was always to make it TV-ready.“The most obvious thing that (viewers will) probably notice is just sort of the correlations tied to speed,” NHL senior vice president of business development David Lehanski said. “It’s kind of the thing everybody talks about: how fast the game is, how fast the players are, how fast the puck moves.”KARLSSON CONUNDRUMSharks defenseman Erik Karlsson missed the final three games before the break with a lower-body injury, but there’s somehow still a chance he takes part in All-Star Weekend in San Jose. Obviously, coach Peter DeBoer said, the organization would love to have Karlsson on the ice in its home arena, but not at the risk of making it worse.“If there’s more damage to be done Jean-Gabriel Pageau Jersey , no one in their right mind would play,” DeBoer said. “So I think it’s pretty simple.”Karlsson returned to California for tests, and defenseman Brenden Dillon said it’s a positive for the team to play it safe with the two-time Norris Trophy winner. Karlsson has fit in well with San Jose after an offseason trade from San Jose and gives the Sharks the look of a Stanley Cup contender with the deepest blue line in the league.“He’s an unbelievable talent and a guy that’s fit in our locker room great too,” Dillon said. “It’s something where collectively as a group we realized that it was going to be a little bit less whether that’s in minutes or situations … I think for everybody it’s kind of been a little bit less is more and understanding the kind of common goal. So far, so good.”SINKING CAPSThe defending champion Washington Capitals have lost six in a row for the first time since the disastrous 2013-14 season that led to the firing of general manager George McPhee and coach Adam Oates. After players-only meetings didn’t solve the problem, the latest gut punch was allowing a goal with 1 second left to cough up a two-goal, third-period lead to the Sharks on Tuesday in what turned into an overtime loss.“I think it doesn’t matter how many meetings we have,” captain Alex Ovechkin said after his hat trick against San Jose wasn’t enough. “It’s all about us and we know how to play hockey. We know when we play the right way we’re going to get success.”GAME OF THE WEEKThe Buffalo Sabres get an early test in the second half of the season when they visit the Columbus Blue Jackets on Tuesday in each team’s first game after the All-Star break.LEADERS (through Tuesday)Goals: Ovechkin, 36; Assists: Nikita Kucherov (Tampa Bay), 56; Points: Kucherov, 78; Ice time: Drew Doughty (Los Angeles), 26:41; Wins: Marc-Andre Fleury (Vegas), 27; Goals-against average: Robin Lehner (N.Y. Islanders), 2.02; Save percentage: Lehner, .931. Alexander Ovechkin has announced that he will not be partaking in any of the All-Star Weekend events this season.The Capitals star stated his reason is because he wants to take that week off to rest and rejuvenate himself. He also stated that this additional rest will allow him to perform better in the second half of the season.The 33-year-old has appeared in all of the Washington Capitals 38 games this season. He also is coming off of a season where he played in all 82 games and captured his first Stanley Cup championship.advertisingCapitals coach Todd Reirden said team will decide closer to all-star break which game Alex Ovechkin will sit out. He has to miss one game for dropping out of NHL All-Star Game.— Tom Gulitti (@TomGulittiNHL) January 2 http://www.senatorsshoponline.com/authentic-mark-stone-jersey , 2019Due to the NHL trying to have their best players at these All-Star events, for the past few seasons they have enforced this suspension rule when a player decides to skip the weekend.聽This is why Ovechkin has been suspended by the league for one game.The eleven-time All-Star will likely either sit out the Capitals last game before the break on Jan. 23,聽2019, or their first game back on Feb. 1, 2019. Which will mean by skipping the All-Star events, he will receive a nine or ten-day break from any NHL activities.Ovechkin was named as the聽Metropolitan Division captain, for his performance so far this season. He currently leads the league in goals with 29 and ranks 18th in the league for points.advertising SportsnetThis announcement means that this could be the start of a regular occurrence for Ovechkin if he continues to make deep runs into the playoffs each season. He is above the age of 30, which means his body doesn't recover as fast as a lot of the younger All-Stars in this league.So with a week off during the middle of the season, this could not only allow him to perform effectively for the second-half of this season. But, it could also allow him to prolong his career.Ovechkin could definitely benefit from a week-off instead of participating in the All-Star Weekend. Which could not just benefit him for this season, but every season for the rest of his career.advertisingOvechkin is the key to success for the Capitals. So if taking a week off during the middle of the season is going to help him perform consistently throughout the entire season, then missing the All-Star Weekend events shouldn't be a big deal.If this experiment is successful for him, then he should definitely consider skipping the All-Star events every season in order for him to be effective all season-long and help his team make the playoffs consistently each season.