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Enhancements to Hockey Reference Player Game Finder

Posted by Mike Lynch on June 19, 2015

We're excited to introduce a couple of fantastic enhancements to the Hockey Reference Player Game Finder. This tool allows you to search through game-level player stats for every NHL game since 1987-88.

The huge addition is the option to search by cumulative games, which allows you to search for statistics over a specific span of games. Use this option by selecting "Search for Cumulative Games" in the yellow section directly below "Search Form." This tool opens up capabilities to do informative searches never before possible on Hockey Reference. Here are some examples to give you the gist:

You'll also notice that we've added an option to search for games on a player's birthday. So you can now search for things like birthday Hat Tricks.

Or you can even combine these new features and find the players with the most career birthday goals or the most career playoff birthday goals.

2 Responses to “Enhancements to Hockey Reference Player Game Finder”

  1. Greg Says:

    This is cool! Do you have any idea if you'll be adding boxscores for seasons prior to 1987-88 anytime in the distant or not-so-distant future?

  2. Mike Lynch Says:

    Thanks, Greg. We'd love to if we had a source