gistfile1.py

import requests
import re
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

contents = requests.get("http://www.nhl.com/scores/htmlreports/20022003/PL020413.HTM").text

soup = BeautifulSoup(contents)

table = soup.find("pre").text

rows = table.split("\r\n")[1:]

#print rows

columns = []

for row in rows:
	if re.match("^[\s-]+$",row) and not re.match("^\s+$",row):
		for i in range(len(row)):
			if row[i] == "-":
				if i == 0 or row[i-1] != "-":
					start = i
				if i == len(row)-1 or row[i+1] != "-":
					end = i
					columns.append([start,end])
		break

results = []

for row in rows:
	if re.match("^\s+$",row):
		continue

	result = []
	for column in columns:
		result.append(row[column[0]:column[1]+1].strip())
	results.append(result)

as_json = []

for result in results[2:]:

	objectified = {}

	for i in range(len(results[0])):
		objectified[results[0][i]] = result[i]

	as_json.append(objectified)

print as_json