Most shots on goals in a game?
 

What's the most shots on goal you've heard of for one team in a game?

The NHL record is 83. This century, the most by a team in an NHL game is 61.

On Wednesday night, in the NPHL (USA Hockey Junior Tier III A), a team had 103 shots on goal.

Eh, sounds like a defense-optional league, like many junior leagues.

Found out last night, that apparently whoever was tracking SOGs over-inflated the numbers (or didn't know what qualified as an SOG). Apparently the actual number for SOG for the game was 51 for the team, not 103 as is listed on the boxscore/game sheet.

If you count all shot attempts (i.e blocked shots, shots wide, etc), then 100 isn't an unreasonable number.

If a team gets 51 through, they've probably at least made another 50 attempts on top of that.

An actual SOG, however, is a puck does enter the net, or one that would have entered the net had the goalie not been there.

That's what I've been told, for a shot to actually count as an SOG it had to be within the 4x6 area of the goal & had a great chance to go in if the goalie was not present.

Of course, being a junior tier III USA Hockey league, the off-ice officials are normally just the Official Scorer, timer, penalty box attendants, & PA Announcer, as goal judges are optional in the league. So if the Penalty Box attendants are having to track SOGs, their viewing angle is not the greatest to see if a shot actually qualifies as an SOG, so they just count any shot towards the goal even if not good.