Add a visualization of who's on the Ice and who has the Puck

Acknowledgment

This idea was first raised in this Discord thread and I want to make sure it gets proper consideration. Credit where it's due.

I'm adding my name to it here because I think it's worth a formal look.

What we'd like to see

This doesn't need to be a precise simulation or a real-time animation. Something simple would go a long way: a top-down view of the ice showing which players from each team are currently on it, and an indicator for who has the puck.

Exact positions aren't the ask here. Just presence. Who's out there, and where the puck lives right now.

Why It Matters

The live feed is already great at telling me what happened. But right now, between events, I have no sense of the state of the ice. It's a scoreboard without a field.

A visual like this would:

• Make it immediately obvious which players are active at any given moment
• Let puck possession land with actual weight — you'd see it shift
• Give the feed a sense of place, not just a timeline of events
• Make player modifiers and lineup changes feel more legible in real time

Hockay has so much going on — rosters, modifiers, The Sixth pulling players out of reality — and a lot of that happens on the ice. A field view would make all of it more readable at a glance.

Notes

• Exact player coordinates don't need to be tracked or stored — even a zone-based or abstract layout would work
• Could be its own panel alongside the feed, or a collapsible component
• Doesn't need to be animated; a state-snapshot that updates between events would be enough

Le Council is encouraged to take this under advisement. The ice deserves to be seen.