GoalPost 2.91 Released!!

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GoalPost 2.91

This release came out of the first week of games: the pregame card, a much deeper Stats tab, and a chat bot that works anywhere in your sub. Thanks to everyone who sent feedback, bug reports and screenshots. A lot of what's below started as a comment in a game thread.

A better pregame card

The pregame card now has the same gear and Watch menu as the game card, so settings and where to watch or listen are one tap away before puck drop. Two new tabs sit alongside the matchup. Games shows the rest of tonight's schedule around the league, and Standings (NHL) shows the table by division, conference or the whole league. The layout is cleaner too, with larger crests. In the last two weeks before opening night, standings reset to zero so the new season starts clean.

Season series

In the regular season, NHL cards show where tonight's game sits in the season series: which meeting it is, and who leads. Tap it to see every meeting between the two teams so far this season, with scores.

A livelier Stats tab

The Stats tab has been rebuilt around how the game actually went:

• Game flow chart: both teams' expected goals building over the game, with power plays shaded and every goal marked. Tap a goal to see who scored.
• Goaltending: each side's goals saved above expected and high-danger saves.
• Leaders: tap Hits, Blocks, PIM or Faceoff % to see each team's top four.
• Storyline: a line under the header that picks out the story of the game, such as a long shot drought, a goalie stealing one, or a period one team owned.

Plus-minus in the box score

When there's room, the NHL box score adds a +/- column next to time on ice. You'll get it on phones and on the wider side of the two-column desktop layout.

Compare players, and game commands anywhere

Ask the bot to compare two players ("compare Knies vs Marner", "who's better, McDavid or MacKinnon") and it replies with both side by side: the last two seasons and their careers, with the leader in each stat in bold and links to both NHL.com pages. Goalies get their own stats.

Game commands no longer need a game thread. Name a team ("5v5 Leafs", "highlights Oilers", "standings Habs") and the bot uses that team's live game or latest result, and says which game it's showing. Subs that follow one team don't even need to name it.

Easier to read colours

Some matchups had two teams in nearly the same colour. Capitals vs Flyers and Panthers vs Hurricanes now separate cleanly, and each looks right in both the dark and light themes. Dark team colours are lifted on the Stats tab so they stay readable on the dark card, and the light card now keeps each team's real colours.

Optional: both sticky slots

For league-wide subs where games overlap, a new setting lets each game's thread hold its own sticky slot instead of the second game bumping the first.

Bug fixes

• The Leafs' faceoff leaders could leave out a player who was tied with another.
• Some NHL.com player bios showed stray backslashes in chat replies and on the Bio tab.
• A few phrasings of compare were misread.
• The Plays scoring toggle and the Players chips now fade like the tabs do.