NHL Power Commands

NHL Power Commands, dig in to NHL stats, fetch current data from NHL.com and from https://statsapi.web.nhl.com/api/ read more about that here: https://gitlab.com/dword4/nhlapi

This project is therefore dependent on that this services are running and do not have breaking changes.

Prerequisites

You need support for at least .NET 6 or higher versions, you can download current SDK from here: Microsoft .NET Download

Installation of the Power Commands NHL Client

There are one prepared release for Windows x64 machines in the release Downloads.

• Unzip the PainKiller.NhlCommands.zip file to your local machine, suggestion is to create a new directory named PowerCommands.Nhl in your main program directory
• Start the program nhl.exe and then run the command install this will unzip the base data, that will give you a good start, over time you will need to fetch updates, which is described under the section Maintain the database with updates the start data is up do date with season 2022/2023.

Now you are ready to start using the NHL PowerCommands Client!

Run solution from Visual Studio (or a IDE tool of your own choice)

This project is open source and completely free for you to use as you wish, just clone this repo and run the code in the src directory, be sure to mark the PainKiller.PowerCommands.PowerCommandsConsole as startup project before you hit F5.

Help

For every commands you could always use the --help option to display help about the command. There are some commands that belongs to the Power Commands framework, they are not described here, read more about Power Commands on github if you are interested.

Use tab

With the tab key you can cycle through valid commands, options and suggestion that a specific command has, many commands has a filter for countries using their abbreviation, use tab to help you.

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Commands

stats

Show points statistic for a specific season or current season, default top count is 25

nhl>stats --top 5

Place FullName            TeamAbbrevs Nationality GamesPlayed Points Goals Assists PointsPerGame PositionCode
    1 Connor McDavid      EDM         CAN                  82    153    64      89 1,86585       C
    2 Leon Draisaitl      EDM         DEU                  80    128    52      76 1,6           C
    3 David Pastrnak      BOS         CZE                  82    113    61      52 1,37804       R
    4 Nikita Kucherov     TBL         RUS                  82    113    30      83 1,37804       R
    5 Nathan MacKinnon    COL         CAN                  71    111    42      69 1,56338       C    

Options (option always has a trailing -- before option name)

team goalies at-least-game-count name top goals assists points-per-game forward defense rookie

Country filters (one or as many as you want)

SWE|FIN|CAN|USA|CZE|SVK|DEU|AUS|CHE|SVN|NOR|DNK|NLD|BLR|LVA|FRA|AUT|GBR|UKR|HRV|LTU|KAZ|POL|NGA|BHS|ITA|RUS

Examples

Show points stats for current top 25 (default)

stats

Show points stats for 2010, show first top 100

stats 2010 --top 100

Show points stats for all swedish players for current season

stats --nation swe

Compare swedish and finnish players for season 2016/2017 in the top 100

stats 2017 SWE FIN --top 100

Show rookie points stats for current season top 25 (default)

stats --rookie

Show stats for Finnish players current season in Carolina

stats FIN --team car

Show defense men points stats for current season top 25 (default)

stats --defense

Show stats for current season top 25 goal scorer (default)

stats --goals

Show stats for current season top 25 assists (default)

stats --assists

Show stats for current season top 25 points per game (default)

stats --goals-per-game

draft

Fetch draft data from NHL api to build up your base data or just display drafts from the local database file. Draft has a dependency to downloaded players.

nhl>draft 2017 --take 5

2017 Nico Hischier Naters CHE Halifax  Round:1 PickOverall: 1
2017 Nolan Patrick Winnipeg CAN Brandon  Round:1 PickOverall: 2
2017 Miro Heiskanen Espoo FIN HIFK  Round:1 PickOverall: 3
2017 Cale Makar Calgary CAN Brooks  Round:1 PickOverall: 4
2017 Elias Pettersson Sundsvall SWE Timra  Round:1 PickOverall: 5

Options (option always has a trailing -- before option name)

take include-all delete

Country filters (one or as many as you want)

SWE|FIN|CAN|USA|CZE|SVK|DEU|AUS|CHE|SVN|NOR|DNK|NLD|BLR|LVA|FRA|AUT|GBR|UKR|HRV|LTU|KAZ|POL|NGA|BHS|ITA|RUS

Examples

Show draft for season 2010/2011

draft 2010

Include skaters that for some reason missing in the database (probably never made it to the NHL?)

draft 2010 --include-all

Delete a draft year (in case you want to download it again)

draft --delete 1980

Player

Search player with filters.

Options (option always has a trailing -- before option name)

goalies active un-drafted

Country filters (one or as many as you want)

SWE|FIN|CAN|USA|CZE|SVK|DEU|AUS|CHE|SVN|NOR|DNK|NLD|BLR|LVA|FRA|AUT|GBR|UKR|HRV|LTU|KAZ|POL|NGA|BHS|ITA|RUS

Examples

Search "wayne gretzky"

player "wayne gretzky"

Search swedish players

player SWE

Search Canadian undrafted players named "wayne"

player "wayne" CAN --un-drafted

Seasons

Show goal or point stats for seasons or a specific season.

nhl>seasons 2010 --stop 2012

Season  Winner        Nation WinnerPoint PointsPerGame Over99 Games Status
2009/10 Henrik Sedin  SWE            112 1,36585            4    82 Completed
2010/11 Daniel Sedin  SWE            104 1,26829            1    82 Completed
2011/12 Evgeni Malkin RUS            109 1,45333            1    82 Completed

Options (option always has a trailing -- before option name)

stop goals

Examples

Show points leader for current season

seasons

Show goal leader stats for current season

seasons --goals

Show points winners for seasons 2010 to 2015

seasons 2010 --stop 2015

Maintain the database with updates

download

Download data from nhl.com, skaters stats is default and does not explicit have to been set by option.

Options (option always has a trailing -- before option name)

goalies standings drafts find-missing-players

Examples

Download skater statistic for current season

download

Download skater statistic for season 2000

download 2000

Download goalies statistic for every skater seasons previously downloaded.

download --goalies

Look for players that are missing and download them.

download --find-missing-players

Download drafts (and prospects) from 2010 until an already existing year.

download 2010 --drafts

Download NHL team standings from the min skaters year downloaded to current season

download --standings

db

With the db command you can view metadata about your local NHL json file based database, below is a sample of what is shown.

Players
Number of players: 7034
Nationalities: CAN|FIN|USA|CZE|SWE|SVK|RUS|LVA|UKR|POL|BLR|LTU|DEU|FRA|CHE|GBR|KAZ|NOR|NGA|KOR|AUT|JAM|SVN|ITA|PRY|NLD|SRB|VEN|DNK|LBN|AUS|HRV|BHS|JPN|BRA
Last updated:2023-04-14 11:35:12
 File size: 10 MB

Examples

db

This applications is made with the use of Power Commands!

Read more about Power Commands on github if you are interested.

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