VHL Game Info

Game header of a report: date, attendance, score by period, teams, coaches and officials.

Usage

vhl_game_info(season, game_id, stage = "regular", return_parsed = TRUE)

Arguments

season

Season END year (2026 = 2025/26; the calendar covers 2010/11 on). With stage it is mapped to the site's tournament id, see vhl_tn().

game_id

Required. Game id (game_id in vhl_schedule; the report's and the broadcast's idgame), e.g. 899223.

stage

Season stage: "regular" (default) or "playoff".

return_parsed

TRUE (default) returns the parsed tibble; FALSE returns the page's parsed record (a named list, plus _request with the season, stage, tn and the ids asked for).

Value

A fastRhockey_data tibble with one row per game (one row):

col_name	type	description
game_id	integer	Game id (the calendar's game_id; the report's and the broadcast's idgame). The report and broadcast pages do not print it: it comes from the request.
season	integer	Season END year (2026 = 2025/26).
stage	character	Season stage: regular or playoff.
game_number	integer	Official game number (from 'No.984'); checked against the request.
tn	integer	Tournament id of the season stage (2025/26 regular season = 1374, playoffs = 1375); vhl_tn maps season + stage to it.
date	character	Game date, ISO 'YYYY-MM-DD', parsed from date_text.
local_time	character	Start time 'HH:MM' from date_text; local time zone unverified (likely Moscow).
date_text	character	Date line verbatim; RUSSIAN month and weekday even on /en/ ('18 Mart 2026, Sreda, 17:00'). The time datetime attribute is a constant placeholder (2020-01-23 18:00) and is ignored.
attendance	integer	Attendance (from '910 sp').
score	character	Final score 'home:away' (the shootout counts as one goal).
home_score	integer	Home final goals.
away_score	integer	Away final goals.
decision	character	OT or SO when the game went past regulation; null otherwise.
period_scores	list of character	Score of each period 'home:away', overtime and shootout included (SO game: '0:2','0:0','2:0','0:0','0:1').
home_team_page_id	integer	Home team page id. Team page id (vhlru.ru only): the {team_id} of /en/teams/{team_id}/ (Toros = 390). Neither a club id nor a team-season id; it joins nothing else (bridge: the calendar row of the same game_id).
home_team	character	Home team name (Latin, FULL form: 'Kristall S'; the report's tables use the short 'Kristall').
home_short	character	Home team short name (the report tables' form).
home_city	character	Home team city.
home_coach	character	Home head coach, 'Surname Given'.
away_team_page_id	integer	Away team page id. Team page id (vhlru.ru only): the {team_id} of /en/teams/{team_id}/ (Toros = 390). Neither a club id nor a team-season id; it joins nothing else (bridge: the calendar row of the same game_id).
away_team	character	Away team name (Latin, FULL form).
away_short	character	Away team short name (the report tables' form).
away_city	character	Away team city.
away_coach	character	Away head coach, 'Surname Given'.
referee1_number	integer	First referee's sweater number.
referee1	character	First referee, 'Surname Given'.
referee2_number	integer	Second referee's sweater number.
referee2	character	Second referee, 'Surname Given'.
linesman1_number	integer	First linesman's sweater number.
linesman1	character	First linesman, 'Surname Given'.
linesman2_number	integer	Second linesman's sweater number.
linesman2	character	Second linesman, 'Surname Given'.

With return_parsed = FALSE, the page's parsed record (a named list) instead.

Details

Source: GET https://www.vhlru.ru/en/report/{season}/ (server-rendered HTML, keyless; parsed with rvest). Unofficial use of a public source; payloads are not redistributed.

Terms of use

Check the provider's terms of use before redistributing this data.

Errors

• fastRhockey_no_data: the VHL has nothing for the request (a season without that stage, a game not in the season's calendar, an unknown game, player or team page).

• fastRhockey_bad_request: a bad season / stage / id, a missing argument, or HTTP 400 / 422.

• fastRhockey_asset_fetch: the page could not be fetched, or it is not the page asked for (another season, game or player; a missing table or header drift).

See also

Other VHL Functions: vhl_goalie_box(), vhl_goalie_stats(), vhl_goals(), vhl_pbp(), vhl_penalties(), vhl_player(), vhl_player_box(), vhl_player_career(), vhl_roster(), vhl_schedule(), vhl_skater_stats(), vhl_standings(), vhl_tn()

Examples

if (FALSE) { # interactive()
# \donttest{
  try(vhl_game_info(season = 2026, game_id = 899223))
# }
}