🏒 Hockey Reference NHL Stats Scraper

🚀 Export NHL player statistics in seconds. Pull skater and goalie stats for any season from Hockey Reference - goals, assists, points, plus-minus, shooting percentage, game-winning goals, and more. No API key, no manual copy-paste, no stale CSVs.

The Hockey Reference NHL Stats Scraper extracts season statistics from hockey-reference.com - the most authoritative NHL historical database on the web, maintained by Sports Reference. Every record returns real-time data pulled directly from the source, including player identity, team, position, and the full statistical profile for skaters or goalies.

The scraper covers every skater and goalie who played in the NHL for any given season, sorted by points. Choose the 2023-24 season (enter 2024), the Stanley Cup-winning 2022 Avalanche era, or go back to any modern season. Results are available as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML in under two minutes.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Sports analysts, fantasy hockey managers, data journalists, hockey coaches, ML researchers, betting analysts, sports media	Season leaderboards, player ranking, fantasy draft prep, historical trend analysis, coaching analytics, ML model training

📋 What the Hockey Reference NHL Stats Scraper does

Two data workflows from a single run:

• 🏒 Skater stats. All skaters for any NHL season - goals, assists, points, plus-minus, penalty minutes, shots, shooting percentage, and game-winning goals.
• 🥅 Goalie stats. All goaltenders for any season - games played, wins, losses, OT losses, save percentage, goals against average, shutouts, shots against, and saves.

Each skater record includes the Hockey Reference player ID (e.g. mcdavco01) for cross-referencing with other Sports Reference databases, the team abbreviation, and the exact season year string.

💡 Why it matters: Hockey Reference is the gold standard for NHL statistics. Building your own scraper means fighting cookie banners, HTML comment blocks, and bot detection. This Actor handles all of that with residential proxy rotation and browser stealth, so you get clean structured data on the first click.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: assists, gamesPlayed, gameWinningGoals, goals, penaltyMinutes, playerId, playerName, plusMinus, points, position, results, scrapedAt, season, shootingPct, shots, team. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the Hockey Reference NHL Stats Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Pick your season (e.g. "2024"), player type ("skaters" or "goalies"), and maxItems.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and wait under 2 minutes.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results from the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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Data is sourced from hockey-reference.com for informational and research purposes. All statistics are the property of Sports Reference LLC. This Actor is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Sports Reference LLC or the NHL.

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