Watching NHL Games in Your Terminal? This Tool Brings Hockey to the Command Line

Published on April 20, 2026
7 minute read

A developer spent his evenings building a hockey tracker for the terminal—because the playoffs were starting and he had Claude Code. Now you can watch live goals, penalties, and power plays scroll by in Courier font while pretending to work. It auto-refreshes every 30 seconds, installs in 10 seconds, and is absolutely ridiculous. No, it won‘t replace your TV. Yes, you should probably install it anyway. Here’s the story of Faceoff, the most unnecessary and delightful thing I‘ve run in my command line all year.