Month: August 2023

Note: Last updated August 23, 2023 —  contains complete playoff results.

I have updated my NHL schedule spreadsheet to include the playoff schedule. I’ve made it available in both Excel and CSV formats. It’s the same as the NHL schedule spreadsheet described in this post, with the addition of an additional worksheet containing the playoff schedule. Due to limitations of the CSV format, the CSV file only contains the playoff worksheet.

You can find the Excel spreadsheet here, and the CSV file here.

The new worksheet is called “Playoff Schedule”, and it looks like this:

Most of the columns in the worksheet are the same as in the original worksheet, with two new ones. The Series column gives the name of the series, such as “East: A1 / WC2” for the series in the Eastern Conference between the top-seed in the Atlantic Division and the 2nd Eastern Conference Wildcard team. The Game # column lists which game in the series (1st game, 2nd game, etc.) this game is. There are a couple of other changes.  In the time columns, if the game time hasn’t been determined yet, it’s listed as TBD.  And, in the Status column, games in the playoffs can’t end in a shootout, so there’s no chance of an SO showing up in that column, and if a game ends in the first overtime period, it’s indicated as OT, if it’s in the second overtime period, 2OT, third is 3OT, etc. As with my regular season spreadsheet, I’ll try to keep this up-to-date every day.

Note: Schedule last updated April 19, 2024 (end of regular season).

Here’s a copy of the 2023/24 NHL schedule and the results of each of the games played so far in Excel .xlsx format, and here’s another copy in CSV format.  Of course, the season hasn’t started yet, so the results are empty right now, but I’ll try to update them each morning through the regular season.

The Excel file consists of 2 worksheets: one contains the original NHL schedule as described in this post; the other, named As-Played Schedule, contains the same contents, with the addition of the scores for each team and whether the game hasn’t been played yet, was won in regulation time, overtime, or in a shootout.  Here’s a quick summary of the columns:

• Date: the date of the game
• Start Time (Sask): the game’s start time in Saskatchewan (where I live!)
• Start Time (ET): the game’s start time in Eastern time (which is the time the NHL website shows)
• Visitor: the name of the visiting team
• Score: the visiting team’s score if the game has been played, otherwise blank
• Home: the name of the home team
• Score: the home team’s score if the game has been played, otherwise blank
• Status: one of the following:
  • Scheduled: if the game hasn’t been played yet
  • Postponed: if the game has been postponed, but not yet rescheduled
  • Regulation: if the game ended in regulation time
  • OT: if the game ended in overtime
  • SO: if the game ended in a shootout

For example, here’s the first couple lines of the worksheet from a previous year’s file:

In this example, the game was played on January 13, 2021 at 4:30 PM in Saskatchewan and 5:30 PM Eastern time, the home team Philadelphia beat the visiting team Pittsburgh 6-3 in regulation time

Just a brief explanation why I’ve got two time fields in here.  Saskatchewan doesn’t observe Daylight Savings time, so for part of the schedule, we have a one-hour time difference from Eastern time, and for the rest of the schedule, we have a two-hour time difference.  Of course, I’m more interested in the time in Saskatchewan, but to make it easier for other people to use, I’ve also included Eastern time.

The CSV file contains only the As-Played worksheet.  It has the same fields as described for the Excel file.  You can easily import this file into Excel or whatever spreadsheet of your choice!