nhlapi/misc.md

Miscellaneous

This area documents things not directly part of the NHL API but related to it, utilized by it or otherwise related to it somehow.

Player Name Suggestion

This service appears to be a search of players based on name

GET https://suggest.svc.nhl.com/svc/suggest/v1/minplayers/NAME/NUMBER

Takes the NAME value which can be any part of a player's name and a NUMBER of results to return, this endpoint searches for all players with this name fragment

GET https://suggest.svc.nhl.com/svc/suggest/v1/minactiveplayers/NAME/NUMBER

Same as the minplayers endpoint however this only looks at active players.