VHL Goalie Stats

Season stats of every goalie of one season stage.

Usage

vhl_goalie_stats(season, 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().
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 goalie and team:

col_name	type	description
`season`	integer	Season END year (2026 = 2025/26).
`stage`	character	Season stage: regular or playoff.
`tn`	integer	Tournament id of the season stage (2025/26 regular season = 1374, playoffs = 1375); vhl_tn maps season + stage to it.
`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).
`jersey`	integer	Jersey number (#; the page legend mislabels this column 'Position').
`team`	character	Team short name (Latin; the report tables' form).
`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 '-'.
`goals`	integer	Goals (G) the player scored in the row's scope: the game in a box score, the season stage in stats and career rows.
`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 (TOI), 'mm:ss' string; minutes run past 59 over a season ('2314:48'); null when the page shows '-'.

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

Details

Source: GET https://www.vhlru.ru/en/stats/players/{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).

Examples

if (FALSE) { # interactive()
# \donttest{
  try(vhl_goalie_stats(season = 2026, stage = "playoff"))
# }
}