Injured players

[danielgentile]

Hi,

I'm trying to fetch every nhl teams and their players to build a simulated hockey game website. I'm using teams /current endpoint but some players are out on LTIR and don't appear on the teams rosters (ie: Jonathan Kovacevic on the Devils).

Any ideas how I could pull a list of all the missing players?

I found the ESPN api has every player on a team. My first thought was to loop through ESPN's list and cross reference it with NHL API player list... but ESPN doesn't have any reference to their actual NHL player ID (ie: Carey price is listed on sharks endpoint but there's no reference to his NHL ID (8471679)

[johnsondillond]

I've had similar issues aggregating data on all goals and assists by team where AHL players weren't listed on the roster.

I think you can try "https://api.nhle.com/stats/rest/en/skater/scoringpergame?cayenneExp=seasonId=20252026%20and%20gameTypeId=2%20and%20" just add "teamAbbrev=" to the end of the previous URL for all skaters that have played for the team.

Same goes for this URL for goalies: "https://api.nhle.com/stats/rest/en/goalie/summary?cayenneExp=seasonId=20252026%20and%20gameTypeId=2%20and%20"

Let me know if that works for you or not!