Fox Sports' 'Glow Puck' will make brief comeback during Kings-Oilers telecast

Any NHL fan who misses the FoxTrax Glow Puck from the 1990s can venture down memory lane Saturday, when Fox Sports West features the controversial puck-tracking system during a special telecast of the Los Angeles Kings against the Edmonton Oilers.

“We won’t be able to give the speed of the shot,” Fox producer Steven Dorfman said. “But we can simulate the glow of the puck, and we can simulate the tracking of the puck. Not live, but we will show some plays in the first and second intermissions, and maybe a couple of clips in-game and postgame on what it would look like if that technology still existed.”

The puck comeback is part of the Kings' Hockey Night in LA promotion, as Fox Sports West will turn back the clock to the 1990s. 

The resurrection of the Glow Puck, even for one night, has created major buzz on social media. That shouldn't be surprising. Any fan who was around when the Glow Puck was in vogue from 1996 to 1998 had an opinion about it.

“It was brand new back then, and it was polarizing,” Dorfman said. “Hockey purists thought it was insulting, the idea that you would need an effect on the puck to see it. Other people drew to it because it was new.”