Delay / missing videos in requested playlist vs actual youtube site

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When requesting playlist items youtube-dl is missing several most recent videos compared to the actual youtube page. Some hours old. This happens on several youtube channels. Is there some sort of delay?
youtube-dl --playlist-items 1-3 -j --flat-playlist https://www.youtube.com/user/NHLVideo/videos

[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'--playlist-items', u'1-3', u'-j', u'--flat-playlist', u'https://www.youtube.com/user/NHLVideo/videos']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2020.02.16
[debug] Python version 2.7.17 (CPython) - Linux-5.3.0-29-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-19.10-eoan
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.1.4-1build2, ffprobe 4.1.4-1build2, phantomjs 26300, rtmpdump 2.4