Inside a game

For the leagues that publish full box scores, every game has its detail. /v1/coverage counts the games with detail, and any game without it answers with meta.detail false and an empty list.

What there is

• Periods: goals and shots each period, overtime and the shootout.
• Goals: scorer, assists, strength, empty net and the score after each.
• Penalties: who, who drew it, minutes and offence.
• Lineups: number, position, line, captains and the starting goalie.
• Skater and goalie lines, and team totals.
• Play by play: every event with its place on the rink and shot type.
• Officials and the head coach of each bench.
• Three stars.

Leagues with detail

The North American top league has every game since its first season in 1917, with play by play and rink positions from about 2010. The Finnish top league and the Swedish top two tiers have lineups, goals and penalties for their modern seasons. The AHL, ECHL, OHL, WHL, QMJHL and USHL have box scores (lineups, goals, penalties, skater and goalie lines, officials, coaches and three stars), filled season by season from the newest. The KHL and MHL have box scores too (lineups with the starting fives, goals, penalties, skater and goalie lines, team shots, power plays and faceoffs, officials), with time on ice, shifts, hits and blocks in the recent seasons, also filled from the newest. The Swiss National League and Swiss League have box scores with line-ups by line, captains and coaches, goals with strength and the winning goal, penalties, skater lines (plus/minus, shots, blocks, faceoffs, time on ice), goalie lines, shots by period, attendance and officials. The VHL has box scores with goals and the players on ice, penalties, skater lines (plus/minus, shots, faceoffs, time on ice, shifts, hits, blocks), goalie lines, power plays, shots by period, coaches, attendance and officials. The Czech Extraliga has box scores from its own game records: goals with strength and the players on ice, penalties, skater lines (time on ice, also on the power play and short-handed, plus/minus, hits, shots, blocks, faceoffs), goalie lines, shots by period, attendance, the rink and officials. The DEL has lighter box scores from 2022-23: periods, goals with scorer, assists and empty-net goals, penalties, and the goalies who played with their time. The DEL2 has box scores from 2008-09: periods, goals with scorer, assists and strength, penalties, attendance, the rink and officials, with skater lines (plus/minus, faceoffs, shots, blocks, time on ice, shifts) and goalie lines (minutes, shots, saves) from the seasons its box scores begin. The ICE Hockey League has scores by period from 2000-01, and box scores from its modern seasons: goals with scorer, assists, strength and empty-net goals, penalties, line-ups by line, skater points, plus/minus and penalty minutes, goalie minutes, goals against and decisions, attendance, officials and coaches. The Kazakhstan championship has box scores from 2021-22: goals with scorer and assists, penalties, skater lines (goals, assists, points, penalty minutes, shots, blocks, plus/minus), goalie lines (shots, saves, time), line-ups by line, team shots, blocks, faceoffs and power-play goals by period, the rink and officials. Mestis has box scores from 2014-15: goals with scorer, assists, strength, empty-net and winning goals and the players on ice, penalties with the player who drew them, skater lines (goals, assists, points, penalty minutes, plus/minus, power-play goals, shots, faceoffs, time on ice), goalie lines (saves, goals against, time) and attendance. Other leagues have scores, periods where kept, and odds.

Plans

Periods, goals and three stars are on every plan. The rest is on the paid plans, for the seasons each plan reads.