Soccer "Shot" VS Hockey "Shot"

spark_sara

When a player shoots the ball in soccer, it's counted as a "shot" regardless of whether it goes wide, gets saved by the goalie, or goes in as a goal. However, in hockey, a shot is only counted as a "shot" when the puck either hits the goalie, or goes in as a goal. Keep in mind, shots are further divided into "shots on goal" and "shots taken" in both sports. The question is, when someone talks about a shot in soccer, they're referring to a "shot...

Originally asked by Highrule on Stack Exchange (sports) (CC BY-SA 3.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

If I had to guess I'd say while they are similar in a lot of ways, soccer is played on a much larger field where players run on foot while ice hockey is played on a much smaller sheet of ice that players skate really fast on. Soccer probably counts all shots cause they're not as frequently taken while in ice hockey shots happen far more frequently and therefor counting all those wide shots would add up a lot. In essence though, they're just different sports and the players and stat keepers probably just feel differently about it.

Full answer by The Jug: https://sports.stackexchange.com/a/1041 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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