who keeps track of all the players' ice time, and how do they do it?

Question

(use a stop watch, or someone look up at the game clock each time a player leaves the bench and returns, and write it down, or what)

(use a stop watch, or someone look up at the game clock each time a player leaves the bench and returns, and write it down, or what) You'd need 5 stopwatches at once and then when the line changes, you'd be fumbling around about who replaced who while you are trying to record all this.

Answer 1

TBLightning...I do know :)

It is done by a neutral statistician who uses a computer with special software, and when a player comes on or off the ice he records it. The guy sits in the pressbox and does it for both teams. NBC uses their feeds as well when they put players ice times on the screen.

There are leagues who do use stopwatches, use the game clock, etc to record this information. The NHL uses IBM.

Answer 2

No way! I always thought that Bettman used his antarctican slaves and their babylonian abaci to keep tally so he could pinch pennies. Well you learn something new everyday!

Answer 3

they use a stop watch and they just click a button to turn the time on and off and then they record it in a chart

Answer 4

I bet LITY knows....