DENVER (AP) — Gabriel Landeskog wears the small sensors in the insoles of his skates for practices and games. He wears them in his sneakers when he's training and, maybe most handy of all, while taking his dog for a walk.
Those spins around the block and ice record all of his biomechanical measurements. The numbers provided a blueprint in helping the Colorado Avalanche captain resume his career after a three-year gap caused by a complicated knee injury. Now, they keep him at his gritty, goal-scoring best.
The collected data ranges from movement patterns to his asymmetry and whether he's favoring his surgically repaired right knee. It calculates in-game/in-practice workloads, stride characteristics and the mechanics of how his feet interact with various surfaces — ground or ice.
