play-by-play actual time

[mreid6]

I'd like to have a feed of all events across games. But there doesn't seem to be a "global" eventId, the sortOrder and eventIds seem to be game specific, so I'm having to parse periods, and event times to guess actual event time so i can sort all events. Anyone see another way?

Also, is the API delayed?

Thanks!

[Zmalski]

I don't personally have an answer for the first question, but re: delay,

I haven't seen what seems to be any artificial delay or even rate-limiting with any API requests I've made. It's either an oversight or just the NHL being nice to us, so best not to abuse it.

[mreid6]

Thanks, the delay proved very temporary.

As far as the "real event-time", I'm trying to figure out a proxy - counting forward from puck drop is terribly inaccurate. So next I'll be trying to work backwards from current game-time.