The NHL is temporarily ditching microchipped pucks 6 days into the season later on concerns were raised about their performance.

The league appear games from Tuesday night on would be played with pucks fabricated for last season. A review showed the first supply of pucks used for tracking weren't finished the same way as those from the playoffs, when player and puck tracking made its debut in the briefing finals.

The first 44 games this season were played with the "tracking" pucks that players and coaches could tell were a little off.

"I was enlightened that the NHL was using a different puck," Philadelphia Flyers jitney Alain Vigneault said. "I thought a couple times it didn't slide as well on the ice. We didn't know if that was the puck or the water ice surface."

Detroit Reddish Wings captain Dylan Larkin said off-hand Monday, "These pucks are bouncing everywhere."

Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly said before the season that all 31 arenas were equipped with the necessary puck and player technology. Player tracking will continue.

The NHL expects new tracking pucks to be available soon and put back into play after undergoing testing.

"I'm sure that they'll figure it out here," Vigneault said. "It's early on in the flavour, and they'll do the right affair."

Puck and player tracking has been in the works for years as a way to provide additional data, heighten broadcasts and add some other chemical element of hockey for bettors to gamble on. So far, TV has been the only abode for that information with NBC Sports executive producer Sam Flood saying the network was "all in" on trying to capitalize on the engineering science and interpret information technology for viewers.

It's unclear exactly when puck tracking will return or when stats like players' skating speed will exist available to the public.

"We'll continue to work with our partners in terms of the information rollout and and the uses of the information," Daly said concluding week. "I think that'll go along to develop over the course of this flavor. But sitting here right at present, I couldn't I couldn't give yous verbal timelines."

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