NHL Excite‑o‑Meter

NHL Official Data

Live and preview excitement scoring use official NHL data feeds.

Real-time play-by-play, schedule, roster, and broadcast information are sourced directly from the NHL's public APIs. Every goal, hit, danger chance, and fight in the Excite‑o‑Meter is grounded in the league's own event tracking.

Key endpoints include:

• api-web.nhle.com/v1/gamecenter/<gamePk>/play-by-play for detailed event streams
• api-web.nhle.com/v1/schedule/<date> for upcoming matchups and game states
• api-web.nhle.com/v1/how-to-watch/<gamePk> for broadcast availability

Thank you to the NHL for publishing rich, timely data that makes this project possible.

Community & Inspiration

The broader hockey analytics community—public researchers, open-source tool builders, and sites such as MoneyPuck—continues to influence how we think about pace, danger, and storytelling. Earlier versions of the Excite‑o‑Meter experimented with community datasets, and their insights still guide our approach even as the preview engine now runs entirely on NHL-provided data.