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NBC Sports
20-03-2025
- Business
- NBC Sports
NHL launches a front office iPad app to modernize roster, contract and salary cap info for teams
MANALAPAN, Fla. — The NHL has launched a front office app that modernizes the league's roster, contract and salary cap information. The league worked with SAP to develop an app for Apple iPads that streamlines Central Registry data, cap and long-term injury status and no-trade and no-move clauses and lays it all out for general managers and league executives to access at their fingertips for the first time. Announced Thursday, GMs have been trying it out since late December. 'Instead of traveling with a booklet of heavy — it looks like a magazine or a Bible, almost — having everything in one place on an iPad I think will just alleviate and make it easier and simpler to log on and check the status and sometimes your roster and how you can make transactions and stuff like that,' Philadelphia Flyers GM Daniel Briere told The Associated Press this week. The development comes eight years since the NHL put iPads in coaches' and players' hands on benches during games. The hope is it will be used just as frequently to figure out trades, free agent signings and other moves. 'The on-bench coaching app that we built together, that is a part of the game every single day and it's built in a robust way that it can be part of the game every single day,' NHL chief operating officer Stephen McArdle said. 'We've sort of done groundbreaking work on the coaching side. We've done groundbreaking work on the fan side with a lot of the statistical data that was powered many years ago by SAP when we re-did that ( stats) site, and now this is sort of the third leg of the stool with roster information.' Longtime hockey executive Don Waddell, in his first season as GM of the Columbus Blue Jackets, said it's convenient to have 'something to refer to quickly where you're always asking those questions' about no-trade clauses and the like. 'And with any new app, it's only going to continue to get better, so we're excited about it,' Waddell said. 'But I think the features that they're offering right now is certainly something that we're all going to be able to utilize.' The initial release of the SAP-NHL Front Office App is made up of three sections: — League view, which provides a high-level display of each team's current and projected offseason cap situation, alerts for daily transactions with custom filters and a player watch list and draft grid of future picks with details on how they changed hands and conditions on selections. — Team view, which offers contract information for each player in the organization for the current season and the next eight. — Player view, which includes biographical information, contract details and PDFs, game logs and transaction history. McArdle said the idea was a result of the technology available combined with the needs expressed from organizations around the league. SAP VP of Global Sponsorships Dan Fleetwood pointed to the coaching app as the necessary first step to make this possible — and potentially speed up player movement around NHL. 'It's that type of a foundation that you need to really kind of grow and do something,' Fleetwood said. 'We hope that it does power more trades or give people the ability to manipulate their rosters better.' In the aftermath of the Washington Capitals buying and shuttering the popular CapFriendly site to make that their proprietary in-house data, places like PuckPedia and CapWages have emerged to fill the void for fans who at one point used CapGeek to look up or reimagine rosters. This app is for teams and teams only and expected to eventually be available on iPhone, but there is no plan to offer a version for the general public. 'We're currently focused on super-serving the clubs in the front office,' McArdle said. 'There is so much information in this version that we think it is most appropriate for the front offices and for the clubs. Down the road, who knows, but right now it's not our focus.'
Fox Sports
20-03-2025
- Business
- Fox Sports
NHL launches a front office iPad app to modernize roster, contract and salary cap info for teams
Associated Press MANALAPAN, Fla. (AP) — The NHL has launched a front office app that modernizes the league's roster, contract and salary cap information. The league worked with SAP to develop an app for Apple iPads that streamlines Central Registry data, cap and long-term injury status and no-trade and no-move clauses and lays it all out for general managers and league executives to access at their fingertips for the first time. Announced Thursday, GMs have been trying it out since late December. 'Instead of traveling with a booklet of heavy — it looks like a magazine or a Bible, almost — having everything in one place on an iPad I think will just alleviate and make it easier and simpler to log on and check the status and sometimes your roster and how you can make transactions and stuff like that,' Philadelphia Flyers GM Daniel Briere told The Associated Press this week. The development comes eight years since the NHL put iPads in coaches' and players' hands on benches during games. The hope is it will be used just as frequently to figure out trades, free agent signings and other moves. 'The on-bench coaching app that we built together, that is a part of the game every single day and it's built in a robust way that it can be part of the game every single day,' NHL senior executive VP of digital media and strategic planning Stephen McArdle said. 'We've sort of done groundbreaking work on the coaching side. We've done groundbreaking work on the fan side with a lot of the statistical data that was powered many years ago by SAP when we re-did that ( stats) site, and now this is sort of the third leg of the stool with roster information." Longtime hockey executive Don Waddell, in his first season as GM of the Columbus Blue Jackets, said it's convenient to have 'something to refer to quickly where you're always asking those questions' about no-trade clauses and the like. 'And with any new app, it's only going to continue to get better, so we're excited about it,' Waddell said. 'But I think the features that they're offering right now is certainly something that we're all going to be able to utilize.' The initial release of the SAP-NHL Front Office App is made up of three sections: — League view, which provides a high-level display of each team's current and projected offseason cap situation, alerts for daily transactions with custom filters and a player watch list and draft grid of future picks with details on how they changed hands and conditions on selections. — Team view, which offers contract information for each player in the organization for the current season and the next eight. — Player view, which includes biographical information, contract details and PDFs, game logs and transaction history. McArdle said the idea was a result of the technology available combined with the needs expressed from organizations around the league. SAP VP of Global Sponsorships Dan Fleetwood pointed to the coaching app as the necessary first step to make this possible — and potentially speed up player movement around NHL. 'It's that type of a foundation that you need to really kind of grow and do something,' Fleetwood said. 'We hope that it does power more trades or give people the ability to manipulate their rosters better.' In the aftermath of the Washington Capitals buying and shuttering the popular CapFriendly site to make that their proprietary in-house data, places like PuckPedia and CapWages have emerged to fill the void for fans who at one point used CapGeek to look up or reimagine rosters. This app is for teams and teams only and expected to eventually be available on iPhone, but there is no plan to offer a version for the general public. 'We're currently focused on super-serving the clubs in the front office,' McArdle said. 'There is so much information in this version that we think it is most appropriate for the front offices and for the clubs. Down the road, who knows, but right now it's not our focus.' ___ AP NHL:
Yahoo
20-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
NHL launches a front office iPad app to modernize roster, contract and salary cap info for teams
MANALAPAN, Fla. (AP) — The NHL has launched a front office app that modernizes the league's roster, contract and salary cap information. The league worked with SAP to develop an app for Apple iPads that streamlines Central Registry data, cap and long-term injury status and no-trade and no-move clauses and lays it all out for general managers and league executives to access at their fingertips for the first time. Announced Thursday, GMs have been trying it out since late December. 'Instead of traveling with a booklet of heavy — it looks like a magazine or a Bible, almost — having everything in one place on an iPad I think will just alleviate and make it easier and simpler to log on and check the status and sometimes your roster and how you can make transactions and stuff like that,' Philadelphia Flyers GM Daniel Briere told The Associated Press this week. The development comes eight years since the NHL put iPads in coaches' and players' hands on benches during games. The hope is it will be used just as frequently to figure out trades, free agent signings and other moves. 'The on-bench coaching app that we built together, that is a part of the game every single day and it's built in a robust way that it can be part of the game every single day,' NHL senior executive VP of digital media and strategic planning Stephen McArdle said. 'We've sort of done groundbreaking work on the coaching side. We've done groundbreaking work on the fan side with a lot of the statistical data that was powered many years ago by SAP when we re-did that ( stats) site, and now this is sort of the third leg of the stool with roster information." Longtime hockey executive Don Waddell, in his first season as GM of the Columbus Blue Jackets, said it's convenient to have 'something to refer to quickly where you're always asking those questions' about no-trade clauses and the like. 'And with any new app, it's only going to continue to get better, so we're excited about it,' Waddell said. 'But I think the features that they're offering right now is certainly something that we're all going to be able to utilize.' The initial release of the SAP-NHL Front Office App is made up of three sections: — League view, which provides a high-level display of each team's current and projected offseason cap situation, alerts for daily transactions with custom filters and a player watch list and draft grid of future picks with details on how they changed hands and conditions on selections. — Team view, which offers contract information for each player in the organization for the current season and the next eight. — Player view, which includes biographical information, contract details and PDFs, game logs and transaction history. McArdle said the idea was a result of the technology available combined with the needs expressed from organizations around the league. SAP VP of Global Sponsorships Dan Fleetwood pointed to the coaching app as the necessary first step to make this possible — and potentially speed up player movement around NHL. 'It's that type of a foundation that you need to really kind of grow and do something,' Fleetwood said. 'We hope that it does power more trades or give people the ability to manipulate their rosters better.' In the aftermath of the Washington Capitals buying and shuttering the popular CapFriendly site to make that their proprietary in-house data, places like PuckPedia and CapWages have emerged to fill the void for fans who at one point used CapGeek to look up or reimagine rosters. This app is for teams and teams only and expected to eventually be available on iPhone, but there is no plan to offer a version for the general public. 'We're currently focused on super-serving the clubs in the front office,' McArdle said. 'There is so much information in this version that we think it is most appropriate for the front offices and for the clubs. Down the road, who knows, but right now it's not our focus.' ___ AP NHL:
Associated Press
20-03-2025
- Business
- Associated Press
NHL launches a front office iPad app to modernize roster, contract and salary cap info for teams
MANALAPAN, Fla. (AP) — The NHL has launched a front office app that modernizes the league's roster, contract and salary cap information. The league worked with SAP to develop an app for Apple iPads that streamlines Central Registry data, cap and long-term injury status and no-trade and no-move clauses and lays it all out for general managers and league executives to access at their fingertips for the first time. Announced Thursday, GMs have been trying it out since late December. 'Instead of traveling with a booklet of heavy — it looks like a magazine or a Bible, almost — having everything in one place on an iPad I think will just alleviate and make it easier and simpler to log on and check the status and sometimes your roster and how you can make transactions and stuff like that,' Philadelphia Flyers GM Daniel Briere told The Associated Press this week. The development comes eight years since the NHL put iPads in coaches' and players' hands on benches during games. The hope is it will be used just as frequently to figure out trades, free agent signings and other moves. 'The on-bench coaching app that we built together, that is a part of the game every single day and it's built in a robust way that it can be part of the game every single day,' NHL senior executive VP of digital media and strategic planning Stephen McArdle said. 'We've sort of done groundbreaking work on the coaching side. We've done groundbreaking work on the fan side with a lot of the statistical data that was powered many years ago by SAP when we re-did that ( stats) site, and now this is sort of the third leg of the stool with roster information.' Longtime hockey executive Don Waddell, in his first season as GM of the Columbus Blue Jackets, said it's convenient to have 'something to refer to quickly where you're always asking those questions' about no-trade clauses and the like. 'And with any new app, it's only going to continue to get better, so we're excited about it,' Waddell said. 'But I think the features that they're offering right now is certainly something that we're all going to be able to utilize.' The initial release of the SAP-NHL Front Office App is made up of three sections: — League view, which provides a high-level display of each team's current and projected offseason cap situation, alerts for daily transactions with custom filters and a player watch list and draft grid of future picks with details on how they changed hands and conditions on selections. — Team view, which offers contract information for each player in the organization for the current season and the next eight. — Player view, which includes biographical information, contract details and PDFs, game logs and transaction history. McArdle said the idea was a result of the technology available combined with the needs expressed from organizations around the league. SAP VP of Global Sponsorships Dan Fleetwood pointed to the coaching app as the necessary first step to make this possible — and potentially speed up player movement around NHL. 'It's that type of a foundation that you need to really kind of grow and do something,' Fleetwood said. 'We hope that it does power more trades or give people the ability to manipulate their rosters better.' In the aftermath of the Washington Capitals buying and shuttering the popular CapFriendly site to make that their proprietary in-house data, places like PuckPedia and CapWages have emerged to fill the void for fans who at one point used CapGeek to look up or reimagine rosters. This app is for teams and teams only and expected to eventually be available on iPhone, but there is no plan to offer a version for the general public. 'We're currently focused on super-serving the clubs in the front office,' McArdle said. 'There is so much information in this version that we think it is most appropriate for the front offices and for the clubs. Down the road, who knows, but right now it's not our focus.' ___
Forbes
20-03-2025
- Business
- Forbes
New SAP-NHL Front Office App Streamlines Managers' Access To Key Information
Alex Ovechkin and Jakub Vrana of the Washington Capitals look at an iPad on the bench during a game. ... [+] (Photo by Dave Reginek/NHLI via Getty Images) For nearly a decade, iPads on benches have allowed NHL players and coaches to access real-time video and data insights during game play. Now, the league's general managers have access to their own iPad tool designed specifically to meet their data needs: the SAP-NHL Front Office App. The platform was developed in partnership with SAP, the global software giant that has collaborated with the NHL over the last decade to help advance and enhance the game by leveraging cutting-edge technologies — including that on-bench app. 'This is just another evolution of the innovation work that that we've done with the NHL over the past 10 years,' said Dan Fleetwood, VP of global sponsorships at SAP. 'When we were looking at the issues or the challenges that we were having with the central office and how to consolidate this information, this was just a logical next step for us.' The initial release of the SAP-NHL Front Office App features a streamlined user interface which houses official data from the NHL's Central Registry, updated daily. 'What we're excited about is being able to host a lot of the things we do right now in one place,' said Columbus Blue Jackets GM Don Waddell, who has worked in NHL front offices for nearly 30 years. 'SAP has done a tremendous job. They're a longstanding partner of the NHL and in business in general. What they do, they do it right.' The league-level layout of the new SAP-NHL Front Office App for iPad. FEATURED | Frase ByForbes™ Unscramble The Anagram To Reveal The Phrase Pinpoint By Linkedin Guess The Category Queens By Linkedin Crown Each Region Crossclimb By Linkedin Unlock A Trivia Ladder The app consists of three main sections. The League View summarizes each team's current and projected off-season salary-cap situation, a draft grid with present and future picks for all clubs, including details on traded picks and draft-pick conditions, and customizable filters for alerts on daily transactions and players to watch. The Team View provides a centralized, sortable hub for contract information for every player in the organization, covering up to eight seasons, as well as a team-specific draft grid. The NHL Player View offers a comprehensive profile of a player's career including game logs, transaction history and contract details, including a PDF image of the player's actual contract. The SAP-NHL Front Office App, which has been in users' hands since December, consolidates and replaces a number of disparate programs and databases that team managers would need to aggregate and analyze when managing their rosters. 'It was really a way to provide official information more efficiently,' said NHL chief operating officer Steve McArdle. 'Take a lot of steps out of the process for the clubs to do what they really need to do — not gather information, but utilize information.' SAP's Business Technology Platform (BTP) enabled the NHL to create a unique and innovative solution that fits the needs of its clubs' front-office staff, and will continue to evolve. 'Their BTP platform really allows for that ongoing customization and that ongoing evolution of what the tool set is,' McArdle added. 'Our GMs and AGMs are not shy about about sharing what they want to see next — they've been very helpful in helping to shape that roadmap. The SAP toolkit allows us to really take that feedback in real and near-real time help to shape the roadmap, which is great.' Columbus Blue Jackets President of Hockey Operations and General Manager Don Waddell. (Photo by ... [+]) For end users like Waddell, the new tool means less paper to carry and less shuffling to find the information that he needs at his fingertips when it's time to structure a trade, manage his team's salary cap or embark on a contract negotiation. 'Instead of carrying around paper with the salary caps for our team, other teams, roster building, it's housed in one location now,' he said. 'This makes my briefcase a little lighter, traveling around. I like that.'
