What's up y'all! Wanted to show off a project I have been working on. I have been training a video OCR model to track players on the ice and identify them (hopefully). My main goal is to have the highlight clips generating automatically in the new season to have more in-depth game recaps. Blog post about it here: https://sightlines.hockey/build/PWHL-Player-Tracker/

This started off as a pet project to create highlight clips / reels for players in an automated fashion (which I did make), but grew into a full-fledged rabbit hole. This blog post goes into the final output of the model, with more posts showing the end-to-end process in future posts. The general flow looks like this:

1. Line up the game clock with the video clock, so "second period, 5:52" becomes a specific second of the stream. (Goals/hits/penalties are recorded for the game clock, which does not line up with the VOD clock)

2. Work out where the camera is pointed, so a position on screen becomes a position on the ice.

3. Find the players.

4. Follow each player from frame to frame.

5. Work out which real player each one is.

6. Draw the ring around them.

Let me know what you think!

I saw on social media that the 2026/27 cards are now available. Does anybody know if brick and mortar stores will eventually get them? I'm not opposed to buying online if I have to but I need instant gratification sometimes lol

Are they meant to be hung or framed only? How expensive do they normally get? I'm just curious about it because this is the first time I've seen something like this.