# ESPN NHL Teams Directory

> ESPN NHL Teams Directory is a paid API for AI agents from clonecho.builda.company, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns a list of all NHL teams including each team's name, abbreviation, and location.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://clonecho.builda.company/x402/s/espn-nhl-teams
- Price: $0.02/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/espn-nhl-teams-directory-d7e75be1
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_kAVIb2zRfqtJ0bcBMfvTR

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability espn-nhl-teams-directory-d7e75be1 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you give me a full list of all NHL teams — their names, abbreviations, and cities?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a complete, structured reference list of all NHL teams with their official abbreviations and locations — ideal for populating dropdowns, validating team names, resolving abbreviations, or enriching sports data pipelines. Prefer this over scraping ESPN directly or using a general sports API when you need a lightweight, no-parameter call that returns only NHL team identity data.

## Known failure modes

- Service unavailable returns non-200 HTTP status
- ESPN data source temporarily unreachable causing stale or empty response
- Malformed JSON response if upstream ESPN API changes schema

## How this service works

All NHL teams with name, abbreviation and location. No params. Returns JSON.

## Output

A JSON array of all NHL teams, each containing the team's full name, short abbreviation (e.g. 'BOS', 'NYR'), and geographic location (city or region).

## More

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