The HPT beta for iPhone and Apple Watch has been running for months — with Android and Wear OS now joining in closed beta. This beta isn't just bug-fixing. Real hockey players strapped on an Apple Watch, hit the ice, and quietly built one of the more interesting amateur-hockey datasets we've seen.
So we pulled the numbers. Everything below comes from sessions players actually logged in the HPT app during the beta — not imported history, not projections. Here's what a community of beer-leaguers, juniors, parents, and a few goalies racked up.
The beta, by the numbers
- 1,096 sessions logged in the app
- 791 of them fully tracked on a watch (shifts, speed, heart rate, and the rest)
- 58 players across the program
- 3,655 km skated — that's about 2,271 miles, or roughly New York to Las Vegas
- 1,311 hours on the ice — more than 54 straight days of hockey
- 303,872 calories burned
- 7,914 shifts tracked, one bench-hop at a time
The average tracked session: 4.8 km of skating over about 99 minutes. Not bad for "just a beer-league game."
Game day
Filtering to real games — sessions with at least six shifts — the beta covered 309 games. In them, players recorded:
- 76 goals and 93 assists
- 14 shifts per game on average
Because HPT detects shifts automatically from the watch, the shift counts weren't tapped in by hand — players just skated, and the data showed up afterward. (Goals and assists are the one thing players still enter themselves; the watch tracks the work, not the scoresheet.)
How fast, how hard
Speed and effort are where a watch earns its keep:
- Typical top speed of ~21 km/h (13 mph) per session, with the fastest sprints clocking ~34 km/h (about 21 mph)
- An average heart rate of 128 bpm across tracked sessions — proof that "low-stakes" rec hockey is still a serious cardio workout
- An average estimated VO₂ max of 40.5, a useful aerobic-fitness baseline players can now watch trend over a season
(Full automatic speed, distance, heart-rate, shift, and recovery metrics need a supported smartwatch — an Apple Watch today, Wear OS in closed beta. You can still log basic sessions from just your phone.)
190+ rinks and counting
Hockey is a local game played everywhere, and the data shows it: beta sessions were tracked across 193 distinct rinks and 230 named locations. From home barns to tournament weekends, the watch came along.
What players actually track
It's not all games. The beta session mix leaned heavily on ice games, but players also logged practices, goalie sessions, dryland training, coaching, and pickup — exactly the range of "ice time" a real hockey life includes. Centers logged the most sessions of any position.
What it means
A few thousand kilometers and a few hundred thousand calories from 58 players is a small slice of hockey — but it's a real one, captured automatically by a watch many players already own. No pods, no chest straps, no base stations. Just skate, and the numbers are waiting when you step off the ice.
That's the whole idea behind HPT, and it's why we took the time to get the beta right before launch.
Get in the game
The iOS and Android betas are live now — request an invite, get on the ice, and help shape what comes next. Official App Store and Google Play launches will follow.
Your best season is the one you can measure. Let's track it.