Load NHL conference and division names and parents by season from the SportsDataverse data repo

One row per NHL group per season it existed, with the name, abbreviation and parent group as of that season (not today's). Published to the nhl_groups release tag on the sportsdataverse-data releases. Seasons are keyed by their end year (2025 = 2024-25).

Usage

load_nhl_group_seasons(..., dbConnection = NULL, tablename = NULL)

Arguments

...

Additional arguments passed to an underlying function that writes the data into a database.

dbConnection

A DBIConnection object, as returned by DBI::dbConnect()

tablename

The name of the data table within the database

Value

A data frame (fastRhockey_data) with the following columns:

col_name	types	description
league	character	League key.
group_id	character	SportsDataverse group id, {league}:{slug}.
season	integer	Season (end year).
level	character	Group level: league, conference or division.
name	character	Group name as of that season.
short_name	character	Short name as of that season.
abbreviation	character	Abbreviation as of that season.
parent_group_id	character	Parent group id as of that season (division, conference, league).
n_teams	integer	Member teams that season.

Examples

# \donttest{
  try(load_nhl_group_seasons())
#> ── NHL group seasons from the SportsDataverse data repo ─── fastRhockey 1.0.0 ──
#> ℹ Data updated: 2026-10-08 12:57:45 UTC
#> # A tibble: 478 × 9
#>    league group_id    season level name  short_name abbreviation parent_group_id
#>    <chr>  <chr>        <int> <chr> <chr> <chr>      <chr>        <chr>          
#>  1 nhl    nhl:adams-…   1975 divi… Adam… Adams      ADM          nhl:eastern    
#>  2 nhl    nhl:adams-…   1976 divi… Adam… Adams      ADM          nhl:eastern    
#>  3 nhl    nhl:adams-…   1977 divi… Adam… Adams      ADM          nhl:eastern    
#>  4 nhl    nhl:adams-…   1978 divi… Adam… Adams      ADM          nhl:eastern    
#>  5 nhl    nhl:adams-…   1979 divi… Adam… Adams      ADM          nhl:eastern    
#>  6 nhl    nhl:adams-…   1980 divi… Adam… Adams      ADM          nhl:eastern    
#>  7 nhl    nhl:adams-…   1981 divi… Adam… Adams      ADM          nhl:eastern    
#>  8 nhl    nhl:adams-…   1982 divi… Adam… Adams      ADM          nhl:eastern    
#>  9 nhl    nhl:adams-…   1983 divi… Adam… Adams      ADM          nhl:eastern    
#> 10 nhl    nhl:adams-…   1984 divi… Adam… Adams      ADM          nhl:eastern    
#> # ℹ 468 more rows
#> # ℹ 1 more variable: n_teams <int>
# }