{"id":487124,"date":"2026-03-05T15:05:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T15:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/487124\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T15:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T15:05:12","slug":"inside-out-characters-joining-nhl-players-for-real-time-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/487124\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Inside Out\u2019 Characters Joining NHL Players for Real-Time Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tSadness, Anger, Fear and Anxiety will be among the typical range of emotions on display at an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/nhl\/\" id=\"auto-tag_nhl_1\" data-tag=\"nhl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NHL<\/a> game when the Washington Capitals battle the New York Rangers on Sunday, April 5 for an animated, alternate telecast called the Inside Out Classic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/espn\/\" id=\"auto-tag_espn_1\" data-tag=\"espn\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN<\/a>+, Disney+, Disney Channel and Disney XD will present the real-time, animated game from Hockey Island \u2014 direct from the mind of Inside Out youngster Riley! \u2014 while a traditional NHL telecast from Madison Square Garden will be available on ESPN. It all starts at 7 p.m. EDT.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe complementary Inside Out Classic will feature animated players skating alongside Inside Out characters and leverage two types of tracking technologies \u2014 NHL EDGE positional data (NHL Puck and Player Tracking) and Sony\u2019s Hawk-Eye Innovations \u2014 to present the action on the ice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAs a promo says, it\u2019s \u201creal-time animated NHL hockey set inside the mind world of Inside Out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tVoice talent from the Disney\/Pixar films, including Phyllis Smith (Sadness), Lewis Black (Anger), Tony Hale (Fear) and Maya Hawke (Anxiety), will be featured in the animated presentation as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tUsing Beyond <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/sports\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sports_1\" data-tag=\"sports\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sports<\/a>\u2019 Virtual Commentator technology from Sony, the ESPN commentators calling the cartoon play \u2014 Drew Carter, Kevin Weekes and Arda \u00d6cal \u2014 will wear virtual reality headsets for motion capture, immersing them in that environment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIn 2023, an NHL Big City Greens Classic featuring the same two teams was the first-of-its-kind real-time volumetric animation presentation in sports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tESPN and the data-driven sports technology company Beyond Sports this year expanded its agreement for alternate telecasts using Disney IP, and ESPN has produced multiple animated alternate telecasts under the agreement as a means to attract new and casual fans to sports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tLast season, the NHL produced a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/nhl-animated-game-hockeyverse-saturday-mornings-1236121733\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hockeyverse Matchup of the Week<\/a> on Saturday mornings that ran on NHL Network in the U.S., on Sportsnet in Canada and globally on the NHL YouTube channel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sadness, Anger, Fear and Anxiety will be among the typical range of emotions on display at an NHL&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5111],"tags":[266,5,3328,35,5190,5193,4,36,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-487124","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-rangers","8":"tag-espn","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-rangers","12":"tag-newyork","13":"tag-newyorkrangers","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-rangers","16":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116177189264951074","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}