NHL home-game demand calendar (2026-27 season)
Daily per-metro panel of NHL home games (32 teams, 30 North-American metros incl. 7 Canadian clubs, 2026-27 regular season): game counts by kind (regular/postseason), division-game / primetime counts, neutral-site (Global Series) games attributed to the host metro, Friday/Saturday weekend and marquee-playoff flags, trailing-7d event density, a documented 0-100 local event-demand score, per-date cross-metro demand ranks and tiers. Join on date + metro to orders, bookings or foot traffic. Game dates/teams/venues are facts from ESPN's public team-schedule API (no login, key or clickwrap) -> commercial_use=yes with attribution.
- Rows
- 1,311
- Columns
- 19
- Source cadence
- Weekly
- Last refreshed
- Oct 1, 2026
- Theme
- economy
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| date | date | Game date in the venue metro's local timezone, ISO. |
| metro | string | Metro area of the home team's arena (neutral-site games use the host metro). |
| metro_state_prov | string | State/province of the metro. |
| country_code | string | ISO alpha-3 country code (USA/CAN). |
| leagues | string | League with a home game (always NHL). |
| home_teams | string | Comma-joined home-team abbreviations. |
| n_home_games | integer | Home games in the metro on this date. |
| n_regular | integer | Regular-season home games. |
| n_postseason | integer | Postseason home games (none until the 2026-27 playoffs are scheduled). |
| n_div_game | integer | Home games against a same-division opponent (derived from the 2026-27 division table). |
| n_primetime | integer | Home games with puck drop at/after 19:00 ET (national night window). |
| n_neutral_site | integer | Home games played at a neutral venue (NHL Global Series), attributed to the host metro. |
| is_weekend | boolean | True for Friday/Saturday game dates. |
| marquee_event | boolean | True if any postseason home game. |
| games_trailing_7d | integer | Home games in the metro over [date-6d, date]. |
| event_demand_score | integer | 0-100 local demand score = min(100, 30*n_home_games + 25*n_postseason + 10*is_weekend + 5*n_div_game + min(15, 3*games_trailing_7d)). |
| demand_rank | integer | Per-date cross-metro rank (1 = highest score). |
| demand_tier | integer | Fixed-cut tier: 4 if score>=75, 3 if >=50, 2 if >=25, else 1. |
| row_hash | string | md5(date|metro|n_home_games|leagues|home_teams|score)[:16]. |
First 10 sample rows — a preview, not the complete dataset.
| date | metro | metro_state_prov | country_code | leagues | home_teams | n_home_games | n_regular | n_postseason | n_div_game | n_primetime | n_neutral_site | is_weekend | marquee_event | games_trailing_7d | event_demand_score | demand_rank | demand_tier | row_hash |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-29 | Boston | MA | USA | NHL | BOS | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | false | false | 1 | 33 | 3 | 2 | 0219760893591aca |
| 2026-09-29 | Edmonton | AB | CAN | NHL | EDM | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | false | false | 1 | 38 | 1 | 2 | e72c64319871fbe5 |
| 2026-09-29 | Las Vegas | NV | USA | NHL | VGK | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | false | false | 1 | 33 | 4 | 2 | 7989da100408262b |
| 2026-09-29 | Raleigh | NC | USA | NHL | CAR | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | false | false | 1 | 33 | 5 | 2 | c536de5249d9a7be |
| 2026-09-29 | Toronto | ON | CAN | NHL | TOR | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | false | false | 1 | 38 | 2 | 2 | 3398bc985544a0d4 |
| 2026-09-30 | Denver | CO | USA | NHL | COL | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | false | false | 1 | 33 | 3 | 2 | 10b9ca5a4f3d03c9 |
| 2026-09-30 | Philadelphia | PA | USA | NHL | PHI | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | false | false | 1 | 38 | 1 | 2 | f3ba39955e103e80 |
| 2026-09-30 | Toronto | ON | CAN | NHL | TOR | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | false | false | 2 | 36 | 2 | 2 | f6d5770aa2522ca4 |
| 2026-10-01 | Calgary | AB | CAN | NHL | CGY | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | false | false | 1 | 38 | 2 | 2 | 03ca7115efa82095 |
| 2026-10-01 | Columbus | OH | USA | NHL | CBJ | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | false | false | 1 | 33 | 6 | 2 | aa82d15a11175e1e |
Profiled Oct 1, 2026 from snapshot 20261001T220823Z-ff55bb882b48
Measured- Completeness
- 100%
- Rows
- 1,311
- Columns
- 19
- Columns with gaps
- 0
| Column | Missing | Distinct | Range | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| datedate | 0% | 205 | Sep 29, 2026 → Apr 10, 2027 | — |
| metrovarchar | 0% | 35 | — |
|
| metro_state_provvarchar | 0% | 25 | — |
|
| country_codevarchar | 0% | 4 | — |
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| leaguesvarchar | 0% | 1 | — |
|
| home_teamsvarchar | 0% | 38 | — |
|
| n_home_gamesbigint | 0% | 3 | 1 → 3median 1 | 4 outside 1st–99th percentile |
| n_regularbigint | 0% | 3 | 1 → 3median 1 | 4 outside 1st–99th percentile |
| n_postseasonbigint | 0% | 1 | 0 → 0median 0 | |
| n_div_gamebigint | 0% | 3 | 0 → 2median 0 | 4 outside 1st–99th percentile |
| n_primetimebigint | 0% | 4 | 0 → 3median 1 | 2 outside 1st–99th percentile |
| n_neutral_sitebigint | 0% | 2 | 0 → 1median 0 | |
| is_weekendboolean | 0% | 2 | — |
|
| marquee_eventboolean | 0% | 1 | — |
|
| games_trailing_7dbigint | 0% | 10 | 1 → 9median 2 | 12 outside 1st–99th percentile |
| event_demand_scorebigint | 0% | 25 | 33 → 100median 41 | 9 outside 1st–99th percentile |
| demand_rankbigint | 0% | 17 | 1 → 15median 4 | 13 outside 1st–99th percentile |
| demand_tierbigint | 0% | 3 | 2 → 4median 2 | |
| row_hashvarchar | 0% | 1,213 | — |
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curl "https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/nhl_home_game_intel/na_nhl_home_games_daily" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'import requests
ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/nhl_home_game_intel/na_nhl_home_games_daily").json()
print(ds["title"], ds["rows"], "rows")
# Sample rows for an LLM context window
for row in ds.get("sample_rows", [])[:5]:
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@misc{dz_nhl_home_game_intel_na_nhl_home_games_da_ff55bb88,
title = {{NHL home-game demand calendar (2026-27 season)}},
author = {{NHL home-game demand calendar (ESPN)}},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Datazimuts},
howpublished = {\url{https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/nhl_home_game_intel/na_nhl_home_games_daily?snapshot=20261001T220823Z-ff55bb882b48}},
note = {Snapshot 20261001T220823Z-ff55bb882b48, sha256 ff55bb882b48e2532409aa58d2eaf64405591c083c017d60c2aaf9e4adf0c22c; accessed 2026-10-02}
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