NHL Stats API — Franchise Listing — nhl_stats

Returns the franchise listing from the NHL Stats REST API (https://api.nhle.com/stats/rest/{lang}/franchise). Parallels the nhl-api-py Teams.franchises() helper.

Usage

nhl_stats_franchise(lang = "en", limit = 100, start = 0, cayenne_exp = NULL)

Arguments

lang: Character language code. Default "en".
limit: Integer maximum number of results. Default 100.
start: Integer pagination start index. Default 0.
cayenne_exp: Optional Cayenne filter expression string passed via the cayenneExp query parameter (e.g., "id=1").

Value

A data frame (fastRhockey_data) with the following columns:

col_name	types	description
id	integer	Unique franchise identifier.
full_name	character	Full franchise name.
team_common_name	character	Team common (nickname) name.
team_place_name	character	Team place (city/location) name.

Examples

# \donttest{
  try(nhl_stats_franchise())
#> ── NHL Stats Franchise ──────────────────────────────────── fastRhockey 1.0.0 ──
#> ℹ Data updated: 2026-06-13 07:20:56 UTC
#> # A tibble: 40 × 4
#>       id full_name             team_common_name team_place_name
#>    <int> <chr>                 <chr>            <chr>          
#>  1    32 Anaheim Ducks         Ducks            Anaheim        
#>  2     8 Brooklyn Americans    Americans        Brooklyn       
#>  3    16 Philadelphia Flyers   Flyers           Philadelphia   
#>  4     7 Montreal Maroons      Maroons          Montreal       
#>  5     2 Montreal Wanderers    Wanderers        Montreal       
#>  6    36 Columbus Blue Jackets Blue Jackets     Columbus       
#>  7    11 Chicago Blackhawks    Blackhawks       Chicago        
#>  8    33 Florida Panthers      Panthers         Florida        
#>  9    28 Arizona Coyotes       Coyotes          Arizona        
#> 10    29 San Jose Sharks       Sharks           San Jose       
#> # ℹ 30 more rows
# }