NHL officials are wearing Apple Watches on ice

NHL Referees Are (Almost) All Wearing Apple Watches

Take a close look at the wrists of the refs the next time you see an NHL game. Chances are that the refs will all be wearing Apple Watches. It’s not the watches that are the story, though. t’s the special app that feeds haptic, situational awareness notifications to refs in real time during the game. You can’t download the NHL Watch Comms App, though. You’ve gotta be an NHL ref. why refs want watches Hockey is a fast sport, and as someone who’s …

NHL officials are wearing Apple Watches on ice

Apple and the NHL are collaborating to give on-ice officials more awareness of their surroundings with the Apple Watch.

NHL Officials’ Latest Tech Upgrade: Smartwatches

National Hockey League referees have received a tech upgrade to help them manage the game on the ice: smartwatches.

The Apple Watch is becoming the key technological tool for NHL referees, offering them real-time assistance on the ice.

Forget VAR, the NHL is using Apple Watches to help referees

Ice hockey referees in the US are taking to the cold stuff sporting Apple Watch models equipped with a special app designed to help them wrangle the rough and tumble on-ice action. The NHL Watch Comms App on Apple Watch and Apple Watch Ultra models (below) will deliver haptic notifications giving refs game clock and penalty clock countdowns, while helping them keep tabs on which players have been banished to the penalty box. The app is being int…