VHL Goals

Goals of a game with scorer, assists, strength and the jerseys on ice for both teams.

Usage

vhl_goals(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 goal:

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.
goal_number	integer	Goal number in the game (G).
period	character	Period (Per) as printed: '1', '2', '3', overtime unverified, 'RB' (Cyrillic even on /en/: shootout, reshayushchiy brosok).
time	character	Elapsed game time 'mm:ss' from the opening faceoff (Time); the shootout row says '65:00'.
score	character	Score after the goal 'home:away' (Score).
strength	character	Goal strength code (PMG): eq (even), ppg (power play), shg (shorthanded); null on the shootout row.
scorer_id	integer	Player id of the scorer: 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.
scorer	character	Goal scorer's name, 'Surname Given' as the report prints it.
scorer_jersey	integer	Scorer jersey number.
scorer_season_total	integer	The scorer's season goal count after this goal (the '(13)' suffix); null on the shootout row.
assist1_id	integer	Player id of the first assist; null when unassisted.
assist1	character	First assist name; null when unassisted.
assist1_jersey	integer	First assist jersey number.
assist1_season_total	integer	The first assist's season assist count after this goal (the '(14)' suffix).
assist2_id	integer	Player id of the second assist; null when none.
assist2	character	Second assist name; null when none.
assist2_jersey	integer	Second assist jersey number.
assist2_season_total	integer	The second assist's season assist count after this goal.
home_on_ice	list of integer	Jersey numbers of the home players on ice at the goal (goalie included); the column header is the home team's short name. Shootout row: the goalie only.
away_on_ice	list of integer	Jersey numbers of the away players on ice at the goal (goalie included); the column header is the away team's short name. Empty on the shootout row.

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

Details

One report page feeds vhl_game_info(), vhl_goals(), vhl_penalties(), vhl_player_box() and vhl_goalie_box(). Each call fetches it (and, for the first game of a season, that season's calendar, cached for the R session). Use return_parsed = FALSE to keep the page's record.

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_game_info(), vhl_goalie_box(), vhl_goalie_stats(), 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_goals(season = 2026, game_id = 899223))
# }
}