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How do you read an official scoresheet?

The official scoresheet records the administrative essentials: goals with their assists (maximum two per goal), penalties with their infraction code and length, and the goalies used. It is the league’s document of record, and also a remarkably poor one: no shots, no ice time, no shifts appear on it in most youth leagues.

What you need to read it: goals are logged at clock time (counting down), assists go to the last two passes before the goal, and penalty codes vary by federation (hooking, high-sticking and interference are the most common in youth hockey). Scoresheet errors happen and get corrected by speaking to the scorekeeper before the game ends.

The rest of the story (ice time, shots, shifts, chances) only exists if someone logs it. That is the parent tracker’s role: the official sheet states the result, your RinkLog tracking states the performance. Together they tell the whole game.

RinkLog measures and computes this statistic automatically during your hockey, ball hockey and ringette games.

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