VHL Goalie Box Score

Goalie box score of a game: shots against, saves, save percentage and time on ice.

Usage

vhl_goalie_box(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, the sdv-internal-refs capture shape, plus _request with the season, stage, tn and the ids asked for).

Value

A fastRhockey_data tibble with one row per goalie:

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.
`team_side`	character	Side of the game the row belongs to: home or away.
`team_page_id`	integer	Team page id (vhlru.ru `/en/teams/{team_page_id}/`), stable across seasons; for report rows the page id of the row's side.
`team`	character	Team short name (Latin; the report tables' form).
`jersey`	integer	Jersey number (integer).
`player_id`	integer	Player id: the `{player_id}` of `/en/players/{player_id}/`, stable across seasons and teams; also the photo id on img.khl.ru. Same numeric sequence as khl.ru player ids; whether it equals the same person's khl.ru id is unverified.
`player`	character	Player name, 'Surname Given' (Latin on /en/ pages).
`captaincy`	character	Unobserved in samples (null in every capture); type and meaning unverified.
`games_played`	integer	Games played (GP).
`wins`	integer	Goalie wins (W).
`losses`	integer	Goalie losses (L).
`shootouts_played`	integer	Shootouts played (SOP).
`shots_against`	integer	Shots on goal faced (the SOG column of goalie tables).
`goals_against`	integer	Goals allowed (GA).
`saves`	integer	Saves (Sv): shots on goal the goalie stopped in the row's scope (the game, or the season stage in stats and career rows).
`save_pct`	numeric	Save percentage (%Sv); 0-100 scale (93.8 = 93.8 %); null when the page shows '-'.
`gaa`	numeric	Goals-against average (GAA) = 60 x GA / TOI minutes; null when the page shows '-'.
`assists`	integer	Assists (A) credited to the player in the row's scope: the game in a box score, the season stage in stats and career rows.
`shutouts`	integer	Shutouts (SO): games in the row's scope in which the goalie allowed no goal.
`penalty_minutes`	integer	Penalty minutes (PIM).
`toi`	character	Time on ice in this game, 'mm:ss'; null for a dressed goalie who did not play ('-').

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.

Owner flag (sanctions)

The VHL is run by Russian league operators, and several clubs are owned or sponsored by sanctioned state companies. Fetching on your own machine is fine; a published data release or a hosted mirror of this data needs the owner's sanctions / legal sign-off first.

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).

Examples

# \donttest{
  try(vhl_goalie_box(season = 2026, game_id = 899223))
#> ── VHL Goalie Box Information from vhlru.ru ────────── fastRhockey 1.0.0.9000 ──
#> ℹ Data updated: 2026-10-13 02:00:16 UTC
#> # A tibble: 4 × 24
#>   game_id season stage game_number team_side team_page_id team  jersey player_id
#>     <int>  <int> <chr>       <int> <chr>            <int> <chr>  <int>     <int>
#> 1  899223   2026 regu…         984 home               390 Toros     49     26207
#> 2  899223   2026 regu…         984 home               390 Toros      1     41850
#> 3  899223   2026 regu…         984 away            505612 Magn…     23     39266
#> 4  899223   2026 regu…         984 away            505612 Magn…     35     32042
#> # ℹ 15 more variables: player <chr>, captaincy <chr>, games_played <int>,
#> #   wins <int>, losses <int>, shootouts_played <int>, shots_against <int>,
#> #   goals_against <int>, saves <int>, save_pct <dbl>, gaa <dbl>, assists <int>,
#> #   shutouts <int>, penalty_minutes <int>, toi <chr>
# }