Introduction

The National Hockey League (NHL) is considered to be the premier professional ice hockey league in the world, founded 102 years ago in 1917. Like many other sports, the data about teams, players, games, and more are a great resource to dive in and analyze using modern software tools. Thanks to the open NHL API, the data is accessible to everyone and the {nhlapi} R package aims to make that data readily available for analysis to R users.

In this post, we will use the {nhlapi} …