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NHL API - Substitution Description Update

We've added a space after a comma to our substitution events in the Game Play-by-Play endpoint.

Ex. <description>Capitals substitution (Tom Wilson, Anthony Beauvillier, Matt Roy, Jakob Chychrun, Dylan Strome)</description>


☑️ Sample Requests:

Game Play-by-Play - https://api.sportradar.com/nhl/trial/v7/en/games/{game_id}/pbp.json


🔢 Versions


🔁 Endpoints Affected

  • Game Play-by-Play, Push Events

⚙️ Return Sample

{
  "id": "62cfe965-2318-40b5-ba79-9f3befbe2f09",
  "clock": "7:46",
  "official": true,
  "updated": "2025-05-13T15:44:30Z",
  "wall_clock": "2025-05-12T23:31:29Z",
  "description": "Hurricanes substitution (Dmitry Orlov, Sean Walker, Andrei Svechnikov, Seth Jarvis, Sebastian Aho)",
  "clock_decimal": "7:46",
  "sequence": 1747092689518,
  "home_points": 1,
  "away_points": 0,
  "event_type": "substitution",
  "attribution": {
    "id": "44182a9d-0f24-11e2-8525-18a905767e44",
    "name": "Hurricanes",
    "market": "Carolina",
    "team_goal": "right",
    "sr_id": "sr:team:3680",
    "reference": "12"
  },
  "players": [
    {
      "sr_id": "sr:player:1383323",
      "id": "75630a9f-1e79-4caf-afd8-ddae4e87ad6b",
      "full_name": "Andrei Svechnikov",
      "jersey_number": "37",
      "reference": "8480830"
    },
    {
      "sr_id": "sr:player:2067019",
      "id": "651605ef-de59-41bf-b66c-9806f1ea9162",
      "full_name": "Seth Jarvis",
      "jersey_number": "24",
      "reference": "8482093"
    },
    {
      "sr_id": "sr:player:88036",
      "id": "436af78e-0f24-11e2-8525-18a905767e44",
      "full_name": "Dmitry Orlov",
      "jersey_number": "7",
      "reference": "8475200"
    },
    {
      "sr_id": "sr:player:536788",
      "id": "4c2ff5eb-59d8-413b-a840-53b5c516bdd6",
      "full_name": "Sebastian Aho",
      "jersey_number": "20",
      "reference": "8478427"
    },
    {
      "sr_id": "sr:player:1213672",
      "id": "ac354a49-0807-4179-b0f3-e57bf2af1aa2",
      "full_name": "Sean Walker",
      "jersey_number": "26",
      "reference": "8480336"
    }
  ]
},
<event id="64293618-5408-42ca-8dce-ab18493c1f3e" clock="20:00" official="true" updated="2025-05-13T15:43:51Z" wall_clock="2025-05-12T23:08:06Z" clock_decimal="20:00" sequence="1747091286941" home_points="0" away_points="0" event_type="substitution">
  <description>Capitals substitution (Tom Wilson, Anthony Beauvillier, Matt Roy, Jakob Chychrun, Dylan Strome)</description>
  <attribution id="4417eede-0f24-11e2-8525-18a905767e44" name="Capitals" market="Washington" sr_id="sr:team:3691" reference="15"/>
  <players>
    <player sr_id="sr:player:352188" id="86153281-b8f0-11e2-8051-f4ce4684ea4c" full_name="Tom Wilson" jersey_number="43" reference="8476880"/>
    <player sr_id="sr:player:983719" id="45480fac-8d91-48dd-88b4-5afe5a921bf5" full_name="Jakob Chychrun" jersey_number="6" reference="8479345"/>
    <player sr_id="sr:player:853528" id="38fc556f-e5eb-4b44-847b-1827e107f2e6" full_name="Anthony Beauvillier" jersey_number="72" reference="8478463"/>
    <player sr_id="sr:player:852998" id="818e24b7-32ae-43c8-b7d1-33ec285ae530" full_name="Dylan Strome" jersey_number="17" reference="8478440"/>
    <player sr_id="sr:player:1299308" id="0cc94754-1f54-4723-939f-8c14dd930759" full_name="Matt Roy" jersey_number="3" reference="8478911"/>
  </players>
</event>