This program produces an on-line schedule for the NHL regular season. Perfect for that .login -- also makes a great Xmas gift!
With no teams or divisions specified, nhl prints the league schedule for the given dates. If no dates are given then today's schedule is printed.
With one team or division specified, nhl prints upcoming games for that team or for teams in that division, starting from each of the given dates (or from today if none are given).
With two teams or divisions specified, nhl prints upcoming games where the first team (or any team in the first division) plays the second team (or any team in second division), starting from each of the given dates (or from today if none are given).
Note that to get a listing of upcoming intra-division games you need to give the division twice (i.e., use two-team mode). If the division is only given once, then nhl will list games in which either team was in the division, not necessarily both.
If no dates are given and today's date isn't during the season, a warning is issued to stderr and the start of the season is used.
If a date is explicitly given that isn't during the season, an error message is printed (to stdout) and nhl exits.
Errors involving incorrect team or division codes, bad dates, or other command-line errors cause the help text to be printed and nhl exits with an error indication.
Any other errors (marked with "YOW!") indicate that the program was not properly configured for the season. You shouldn't see these unless you try to update nhl for a new season.
ana - Anaheim bos - Boston buf - Buffalo cgy - Calgary chi - Chicago dal - Dallas det - Detroit edm - Edmonton fla - Florida hfd - Hartford los - Los Angeles mtl - Montreal njd - New Jersey nyi - NY Islanders nyr - NY Rangers ott - Ottawa phl - Philadelphia pit - Pittsburgh que - Quebec stl - St. Louis sjs - San Jose tmp - Tampa Bay tor - Toronto van - Vancouver wsh - Washington wpg - Winnipeg
nea - Northeast atl - Atlantic
ctl - Central pac - Pacific
Original program concept by Len Carr, used with permission.
All other features created by Rob Springall (rgs7077@ultb.isc.rit.edu, rgs7077@ritvax.bitnet), except for the neutral site games feature, created by Tom Wilson (twilson@dab.ge.com).
Maintained through 1992-93 season by: Valerie Hammerl (hammerl@acsu.buffalo.edu) and Rob Springall.
Re-constructed for 1993-94 by George Ferguson (ferguson@cs.rochester.edu), who also added head-to-head modes, wrote the manpage and put together the distribution kit.
Additional credit goes to the members of the USENET community who contributed ideas and support for this project.