# National Hockey League

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/national-hockey-league/  
**Website:** https://www.nhl.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 9

The National Hockey League (NHL) is the premier professional ice hockey league in North America, comprised of 32 franchises across the United States and Canada. The NHL produces the Stanley Cup playoffs and is one of the major North American professional sports leagues. The NHL does not publish an officially documented developer portal; the league operates undocumented JSON endpoints used by its first-party web and mobile apps (api-web.nhle.com) and provides advanced statistics through NHL EDGE. Commercial data feeds are licensed through SMT, Sportradar, and other approved partners.

## Kin Score — 18.2 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 18.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 46.7 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 17.1 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | na |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | na |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | na |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## APIs (9)

- **NHL Web API** — Public but undocumented JSON API that powers NHL.com and the league's first-party web and mobile apps. Surfaces schedules, scores, play-by-play, standings, teams, players, draft...
- **NHL Stats API (Legacy)** — Legacy statistics endpoint at api.nhle.com (and the older statsapi.web.nhl.com) used by community projects and analytics tools. Hosts deeper historical records, play-by-play, an...
- **National Hockey League Game Center API** — The Game Center API from National Hockey League — 2 operation(s) for game center.
- **National Hockey League Players API** — The Players API from National Hockey League — 2 operation(s) for players.
- **National Hockey League Schedule API** — The Schedule API from National Hockey League — 1 operation(s) for schedule.
- **National Hockey League Scores API** — The Scores API from National Hockey League — 2 operation(s) for scores.
- **National Hockey League Standings API** — The Standings API from National Hockey League — 2 operation(s) for standings.
- **National Hockey League Stats API** — The Stats API from National Hockey League — 2 operation(s) for stats.
- **National Hockey League Teams API** — The Teams API from National Hockey League — 4 operation(s) for teams.

## Agentic access (1)

- **National Hockey League Agentic Access** — 15 operations

## Security (1)

- **National Hockey League Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Sports, Hockey, Entertainment, Professional League

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/national-hockey-league/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.