Apple Watch has been playing a crucial role for NHL referees

It turns out the Apple Watch has been playing a crucial role in helping hockey referees manage NHL games. That’s thanks to a purpose-built app called NHL Watch Comms for on-ice NHL Officials. The app will be used for the first time in an outdoor setting for tomorrow’s Stadium Series in Ohio. The NHL shared the news in a blog post this week: For the first time ever in an outdoor game, League officials will be using the NHL Watch Comms App, developed by Presidio for Apple Watch, to get real-time, in-game situational notifications throughout all the action. Officials will get haptic notifications during the game, including game clock countdowns, penalty clock countdowns and jersey numbers of which players are in the penalty box at a given time. This technology has been in testing and refined for the last few seasons at certain indoor venues, but Saturday will mark the debut of the NHL Watch Comms App in an outdoor setting when the Columbus Blue Jackets host the Detroit Red Wings at Ohio ... Read full article.