BRIEF RESEARCH REPORT article
Front. Sports Act. Living
Sec. Sports Coaching: Performance and Development
Volume 7 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fspor.2025.1648099
A Comparison of Shot Selection and Goal Scoring between Collegiate and Professional Women's and Men's Ice Hockey
Provisionally accepted
- 1Faculty of Health Sciences, Ontario Tech University, Oshawa, Canada
- 2University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Oshawa, Canada
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The purpose of this study was to examine the differences and similarities in shooting and scoring trends between collegiate women's hockey, and professional men's and women's hockey. A multinomial logistic regression using shot data from the Ontario University Athletics women's hockey league, Professional Women's Hockey League, and the National Hockey League revealed statistically significant differences, indicating that each league has unique shooting patterns. Understanding that each league has different shooting and scoring profiles is relevant to coaches, who may benefit from using normative data from their own leagues to support decision making, rather than results from other leagues.
Keywords: Hockey, performance, comparison, Women's sport, Collegiate Sport
Received: 16 Jun 2025; Accepted: 30 Sep 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Csiernik, Cavell, Nauboris and Wattie. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Ben Csiernik, ben.csiernik@ontariotechu.net
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