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The NHL is embedding technology into its pucks that will allow it to track movement on the ice at a rate of roughly 200 times a second, according to David Lehanski, the NHL’s senior vice president of business development and global partnerships.

The smart puck will aid in the league’s development of live data, which the NHL hopes to deploy across the league in a number of ways, ultimately enhancing the fan and broadcast experience, according to Lehanski, who spoke Monday at SAP’s inaugural North American Sports Forum.

The real-time data could be provided to coaches during games as an analytical tool, potentially embedded alongside the videos coaches currently receive on the bench via league-distributed iPads, according to Lehanski. The league is currently working with both Apple and SAP to do that. Further in the future, puck-produced live data might even be integrated with livestreams to assist with sports betting, something that Lehanski said the league would mostly likely power with SAP’s HANA system.

“There’s no doubt that [sports betting] will be a part of the fan experience almost across any touchpoint. Live streaming products will start to incorporate betting functionality. And today, the foundation for that experience is data,” said Lehanski. “Were seeing that 75 percent of all bets in sports now are in-game prop bets. The only way we can do that in a real-time manner is to be aggregating data and distributing it on a real-time basis with someone who can create odds and probabilities in real time and distribute that to the fan.”