Load fastRhockey NHL officials

Helper that loads multiple seasons of NHL on-ice officials (referees + linesmen) from the sportsdataverse-data releases. One row per official per game.

Usage

load_nhl_officials(
  seasons = most_recent_nhl_season(),
  ...,
  dbConnection = NULL,
  tablename = NULL
)

Arguments

seasons

A vector of 4-digit years (the end year of the NHL season; e.g., 2026 for the 2025-26 season). Min: 2011.

...

Additional arguments passed to an underlying function.

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 one row per official per game and the following columns:

col_name	types	description
game_id	integer	Unique game identifier.
season	integer	Season (concluding year, YYYY).
game_date	character	Game date.
role	character	Official role (referee or linesman).
name	character	Full name of the official.

Examples

# \donttest{
  try(load_nhl_officials(2026))
#> ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── fastRhockey 1.0.0 ──
#> # A tibble: 5,566 × 5
#>    role     name                   game_id   season game_date 
#>    <chr>    <chr>                    <int>    <int> <chr>     
#>  1 referee  Kelly Sutherland    2025020001 20252026 2025-10-07
#>  2 referee  Eric Furlatt        2025020001 20252026 2025-10-07
#>  3 linesman Scott Cherrey       2025020001 20252026 2025-10-07
#>  4 linesman Matt MacPherson     2025020001 20252026 2025-10-07
#>  5 referee  Wes McCauley        2025020002 20252026 2025-10-07
#>  6 referee  Jake Brenk          2025020002 20252026 2025-10-07
#>  7 linesman Libor Suchanek      2025020002 20252026 2025-10-07
#>  8 linesman Devin Berg          2025020002 20252026 2025-10-07
#>  9 referee  Frederick L'Ecuyer  2025020003 20252026 2025-10-07
#> 10 referee  Thomas John Luxmore 2025020003 20252026 2025-10-07
#> # ℹ 5,556 more rows
# }