Hockey

I have been working on this pretty heavily over the past week and a half and wanted to share my progress.

https://lemmy.ca/post/5577416

This is a random game from last year just so I had some real data to work this. This is the game, in case you wanted to compare and make sure everything is correct.

It should be ready to go for the preseason. Let me know if you have any other suggestions of what could be added!

The next thing I want to add is a daily thread with links to all the GDTs. It would get pinned each day so everyone can easily find the thread for their favorite team. But I haven't started on that yet.

You couldn't make this up.

I've got two. The first is this Rick Nash vs Phoenix. I had only been watching Hockey for a few months at this point, and a combination of the announcers excitement and the insane skill required kind of blew me away.

The second is Ovi vs Montreal. I remember where I was when I first saw this goal. Early in the morning (UK), I'm on the exercise bike and I'm awestruck with how anyone could do this. It's for me the definitive early-Ovi goal. Speed, Power, Ingenuity and of course, a finish.

Maybe both Biz AND Babcock are insufferable pricks...

What’s the definition of insanity? Seriously, just give Quebec their team. They’ve suffered long enough.

Not sure if it's exactly necessary, but I thought it'd be a nice touch for those of us that wanted to talk hockey from a player perspective.

Hi All

I am currently in the early stages of working on a GDT bot for this community. I wanted to communicate early in case any one else started working on the same thing so we can combine our efforts instead of duplicating them. This is for the community, so I wanted to know the community's thoughts on what features are important or not, or if there are any features that you want.

I am taking heavy inspiration from the reddit GDT bot for formatting and feautres, but definitely don't expect all of those features right at launch. Questions for the community:

• Are there any features that you wished the reddit GDT bot had?
• Are there any features that you wished the reddit GDT bot didn't have, say if it is a distraction or takes up too much space on the screen?
• How would you feel about having the bot leave a comment with additional info instead of cluttering up the main body? (not sure if this is possible with the Lemmy API I am using)

My goal is to have a functioning minimum viable product by the preseason so I can test it out during the preseason and have it ready by the first day of the season. I can run full tests with historical data now, as the NHL API lets me pull data from all old games (which is amazing, btw!), but I am sure I am going to have issues with creating posts and updating the post bodies, and the testing of that feature sounds tricky without live data updating.

Current minimum viable product features planed:

• Post GDTs 30 minutes or 1 hour before the start of each game
• Title contains the teams playing and the start time of the game (in the Eastern Time Zone?)
• Body contains the score, game clock, other basic stats, and updates throughout the game.
• Body contains who got each goal, along with who got each assist
• Possibly have some details like the status of the game (Not started yet, In progress, completed) in the title
• Open source so anyone can contribute
• UNIT TESTS
• Self-hostable via container, so if another hockey community on another instance wanted to have a GDT bot, they would just need to change a few variables in a .env file and host it themselves.

Edit: I wanted to provide an update on my progress. I posted the source code on github here. I also have tested it on a community in my own instance here. Since there are no games currently going on, this game is a random one I chose from last season. It's actually this one

Three of Canada's key national team members have signed to play in the PWHL with Montreal, including the best player on the planet, Marie-Philip Poulin.

Poulin headlines the trio alongside longtime Team Canada starter Ann-Renee Desbiens, and power forward Laura Stacey.

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Can’t wait to support them!

I'm going to throw my money behind Goon. Largely because I actually saw it on the cinema and as a UK based fan it's one of the few that my friends actually know about.

You?

Capitals fan here so I'll get us started.

I'm going with Nic Dowd. The man is super consistent, rarely misses a shift and finds a way to impact games more often than a 4th line 'grinder' should.

He's also the only guy on the team who seems to know how to win a faceoff.

Lindstrom and a 4th round pick. Pens retain $1.3 million, Canadiens and Red Wings pay $2.3 million each. Contract has 2 remaining years. Seems like a relatively even trade of a veteran presence for a young defensman.

My wife picked up this puck at the Hockey Hall of Fame last week. I think there's something odd about Gritty...she disagrees. Not saying what it is so as not to bias you. I'd like to get a ruling from the internet on this, please!