SprintAI Announces Hockey Operations Partnership with NHL's Colorado Avalanche

Agreement expands SprintAI’s work within Kroenke Sports & Entertainment following continued collaboration with the NFL's Los Angeles Rams

Denver, CO (October 13, 2026) – SprintAI, the AI platform built for professional sports organizations, today announced a partnership with the Colorado Avalanche of the National Hockey League.

The partnership will bring SprintAI’s artificial intelligence technology into the Avalanche organization, helping staff work more efficiently, improve the flow of information and automate time-consuming workflows.

The collaboration represents a natural extension of SprintAI’s work within Kroenke Sports & Entertainment. SprintAI has worked with the Los Angeles Rams since 2024, where its technology has become embedded in daily operations and helped demonstrate how AI can turn fragmented information into more efficient workflows and better decision support.

“We are always looking for ways to help our staff communicate more effectively and spend less time on manual processes,” said Suzanne Borchert, Executive Director of Hockey Operations for the Colorado Avalanche. “AI has the potential to make information easier to access, reduce unnecessary administrative work and allow our people to focus more of their time on the decisions and conversations that matter most. We see SprintAI as a strong partner in helping us move in that direction.”

SprintAI is designed to work across a sports organization’s existing technology environment, connecting information from different systems and enabling AI to help staff access, interpret and act on it more efficiently.

“Our vision has always been much bigger than building another sports technology tool,” said Juha Tiihonen, Founder and CEO of SprintAI. “We believe AI is fundamentally changing how professional sports organizations operate. Forward-thinking teams like the LA Rams and Colorado Avalanche give us an extraordinary environment to demonstrate that in practice.”

The Avalanche partnership marks another milestone in SprintAI’s expansion across North American professional sports as the company builds an AI-native intelligence layer for the modern sports organization.

Buffalo Sabres and Sprint.AI Announce Multi-Year Partnership to Build AI-Native Hockey Operations

Agentic AI platform will connect performance data, organizational workflows and front-office intelligence to support faster, better-informed decisions

BUFFALO, N.Y. (September 9, 2026) – The Buffalo Sabres today announced a multi-year partnership with sports artificial intelligence company SprintAI to bring advanced artificial intelligence into the club’s hockey operations and build a more connected approach to on-ice player performance, organizational workflows and front-office decision-making.

At the center of the partnership is a shared vision for how AI can help a modern sports organization operate. Rather than simply adding another source of analytics or another dashboard for staff to monitor, SprintAI is designed to connect information across existing data sources and workflows, continuously interpret what is changing and help surface the information, questions and actions that require attention.

The mutual goal is to create an intelligence and orchestration layer that helps the Sabres transform fragmented information into decision-ready context. Over time, AI-powered workflows will support staff in monitoring on-ice player performance, identifying relevant changes, searching and synthesizing information, automating routine reporting and workflows, and preserving organizational knowledge so that important context can move more efficiently across hockey operations.

“We are constantly looking for ways to improve how we support our players, how we make decisions as an organization and how we build a hockey operation that is prepared for the future,” said Jarmo Kekäläinen, General Manager of the Buffalo Sabres. “The opportunity today is to help our people leverage AI to connect and interpret the information we already have, understand what is changing and get the right context in front of the right people at the right time. We believe SprintAI can help us build that capability while creating a more connected, adaptable and future-ready hockey organization.”

The initial development roadmap will span both on-ice player performance and hockey operations. It includes the deployment and continued development of a Performance Staff Module that drives next-level efficiency and productivity gains, communication and workflow automation, and the development of a General Manager Module in collaboration with the Sabres’ front office.

The partnership is designed to evolve as the organization’s needs evolve. SprintAI and the Sabres will work together to determine development priorities, incorporating new AI capabilities and workflows while protecting the Sabres’ proprietary data, methodologies and competitive information.

“Professional sports organizations already have vast amounts of data, expertise and institutional knowledge. The next competitive advantage comes from being able to connect and orchestrate all of that intelligence continuously,” said Juha Tiihonen, Founder and CEO of SprintAI. “Agentic AI changes the model from people constantly having to search for information to an environment where the system understands context, monitors what is changing and proactively helps prepare the organization for its next decision. Our ambition with the Sabres is to build that capability together, augmenting the expertise of their people, helping the organization learn and operate faster, and building toward an AI-native future of sport.”

SprintAI develops AI-powered intelligence systems specifically tailored for professional sports operations. Its platform combines data integration, sports-specific artificial intelligence, workflow automation and decision-support capabilities to help athletes, performance staff and team leadership turn complex information into actionable intelligence.