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The NHL will use Pre-Recorded GoPro Footage During Game Broadcasts this Season
By Jim Adair
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Unfortunately, we won’t be getting live referee cam, but the NHL and NBC are going to integrate the GoPro camera into their television coverage this season. According to the Verge, the tiny, attachable cameras will be used to shoot “prerecorded footage of select players demonstrating what it’s like to be in specific situations.” What those situations would be has yet to be announced — making a save, taking a penalty shot, deflecting a shot into the goal all come to mind as good uses — but “any player that GoPro has footage for (and it’s not stated how many that is), the networks will be able to cut to their point-of-view demonstration whenever it wants to in order to better illustrate what’s happening in the game.”
The league will also use the footage in commercials, promos on the NHL Network, online, and on GoPro’s Youtube Channel, giving you a chance to say “Man, I wish they’d use those in-game” over and over and over again.
Kyle: I can’t wait for Ray Emery Cam.
When he's not writing about sports here or ranting about them on Twitter, Jim is probably watching X-Files on Netflix or drinking a beer somewhere. Jim has nothing against hockey, it's just not his style. He once met Duce Staley at a Sixers game.