4 tutorials

Hockey

The NHL's public API needs no key. Pull standings and play-by-play, then plot shots on a rink you draw yourself.

A standings table pulled live from the NHL's public API, ranked and charted.

Hockey Beginner

Pull Your First NHL Data from the Public NHL API

The NHL's public API needs no key. Pull live standings with a polite session, shape the JSON into a DataFrame, and chart goal differential by team.

~8 min

One team's shot attempts plotted on a drawn rink from real play-by-play.

Hockey Intermediate

Build a Shot-Location Plot for an NHL Team

Pull a game's play-by-play from the NHL API, draw a rink in matplotlib, and plot one team's shot attempts in rink coordinates to see where they attack from.

~8 min

A team's game-by-game form as a rolling goal differential line.

Hockey Intermediate

Track a Team's Form: Rolling Goal Differential

Pull a team's full NHL schedule with scores, compute a rolling goal differential, and chart the peaks and slumps of a season - reading momentum straight from the data.

~9 min

A clean leaderboard of the season's top goal scorers.

Hockey Intermediate

Build an NHL Goal-Scoring Leaders Chart

Use the NHL's stats-leaders endpoint to pull the top goal scorers, shape the nested JSON into a tidy table, and build a leaderboard chart with each player's team.

~8 min