Terms of Use

1. Acceptance

By accessing or using Post Hockey (the “Site”), you agree to these Terms of Use. If you do not agree, do not use the Site.

2. Permitted use

The Site is provided for personal, non-commercial reading and analysis. You may view pages, take screenshots for personal reference, and quote short excerpts for commentary, criticism, or news reporting with attribution to Post Hockey.

3. Prohibited use — automated access and scraping

Without prior written permission from the operator of Post Hockey, you may not:

• Use any automated system, including but not limited to robots, spiders, crawlers, scrapers, headless browsers, AI agents, or offline readers, to access, index, or download any portion of the Site or its underlying data;
• Bulk-download, harvest, copy, mirror, cache (beyond what your browser does to render a page), or otherwise systematically extract pages, data, JSON payloads, API responses, or other content from the Site;
• Circumvent, disable, or interfere with rate limits, access controls, authentication, robots.txt directives, or any technical measure intended to prevent or restrict access;
• Use the Site or its data to train, fine-tune, evaluate, or otherwise develop machine-learning or generative models;
• Republish, redistribute, sell, sublicense, or build a derivative data product from any non-trivial portion of the Site's content, including computed metrics, leaderboards, projections, and writeups;
• Use the Site for any commercial purpose, including but not limited to gambling operations, betting markets, fantasy platforms, or paid analytics products, without a separate written license.

Requests for licensed bulk access, including for academic research, may be sent to the email listed on the Glossary page. We answer quickly and we are not unreasonable; the bar is that we know who you are and what you are using the data for.

4. Intellectual property

All original content on the Site — including computed metrics, model outputs, writeups, charts, code, and visual design — is owned by the operator of Post Hockey and protected by copyright and related rights. The underlying NHL play-by-play, shift, and boxscore data is sourced from the NHL's public APIs and remains the property of its respective owners; the metrics and analysis built on top of that data are ours.

We publish only what we have the right to publish. Data licensed to us for research stays in research until its owner says otherwise, however good the resulting table would look.

5. Recurring gifts, renewal and refunds

Post Hockey offers an optional recurring gift, billed monthly or annually. Payment is taken by Stripe on its own pages; card details never reach Post Hockey.

While Post Hockey is in beta, a recurring gift buys no additional access. Everything except the All Three Zones pages is open to everyone regardless of whether you give, and All Three Zones is never sold — it is available only through its own subscriber code from Corey. A gift is exactly that: our thanks for it is a little more of CJ’s attention, nothing more. It becomes paid access to PH Pro when the paywall launches, and every gift-giver will be told by email before that changes anything.

• Renewal. A recurring gift renews automatically at the end of each billing period, at the price shown when you set it up, until you cancel. If the price changes, you will be told by email at least 30 days before the renewal it applies to, and you can cancel before then.
• Cancelling. You can cancel at any time from your account page (“Manage billing”). Cancelling stops the next renewal; the gift you have already paid for still covers you through the end of that period.
• Refunds. Payments are not refunded for a partly used billing period, except where the law requires it. If you were charged in error, or charged after cancelling, contact us and we will refund that charge.
• Failed payments. If a renewal payment fails, Stripe retries it for a short period and nothing about your access changes meanwhile, since a gift does not gate anything today. If it still cannot be collected, the recurring gift ends.

6. No warranty

The Site and everything on it is provided “as is.” We try to be careful and we publish our methods, but we make no warranty of accuracy, completeness, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. Do not bet money on these numbers.

7. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the operator of Post Hockey is not liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or punitive damages arising out of or related to your use of the Site, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.

8. Enforcement

We reserve the right to block IP addresses, revoke API access, and pursue available legal remedies — including under applicable computer-fraud and copyright statutes — against any person or entity that violates these Terms. Continued automated access after a block is itself a violation.

9. Changes

We may update these Terms. The effective date at the top of the page reflects the most recent revision. Material changes will be noted in the site's changelog.

10. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the United States and the state in which the operator of Post Hockey resides, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles.

11. Contact

Questions about these Terms — including licensing requests for automated or commercial access — should be directed to the email listed on the Glossary page.