Watch Parties and Prediction Games: Two New Ways to Enjoy Hockey Together
Watch games with friends in real-time chat rooms, pick winners across NHL, PWHL, and AHL, predict scores, and track your season-long record.
Two new features bring the social side of hockey to Forecheck Hockey — without accounts, without servers, and without any data leaving your browser.
Watch Party
Open the Watch Party page, enter your name, and create a room. You get a 6-character code to share with friends. They enter the code and join instantly.
The chat is real-time, powered by the same WebRTC technology that runs the rink board's collaboration feature. Messages go directly between browsers — no server stores anything. When the room closes, the messages are gone.
Features:
- Text chat with colored usernames and timestamps
- Quick reactions — tap a hockey emoji (goal horn, stick, applause, fire) and it appears inline for everyone
- Today's scores shown at the top so you know what's happening across the league
- Shareable URL — send a
?room=ABC123link and friends auto-join - No moderation needed — peer-to-peer, nothing persisted
Prediction Games
The Predictions page loads tonight's games across NHL, PWHL, and AHL and lets you pick winners before puck drop.
How it works:
- Today's games appear with both teams shown
- Click the team you think will win
- Optionally predict the exact score for bonus points
- Your pick locks in — no changing your mind
- When the game goes final, your pick is scored automatically
Scoring:
- Correct winner: +1 point
- Exact score prediction: +2 points
- Wrong: 0 points
Season record: The page tracks your accuracy percentage, total correct/wrong, bonus points, current winning streak, and best streak ever. All stored locally — your record is yours.
Pick history: Every past pick is logged with the date, game, your pick, the actual result, and points earned. The last 200 picks are saved.
Games auto-refresh every 60 seconds, so you see scores update in real-time. Once a game starts, picks are locked — no picking after puck drop.
Both features are free, require no account, and work offline (cached data from your last visit). Try them tonight — open Watch Party for game night chat, or Predictions to test your hockey IQ.