Least combined SOG in a period and/or game?

[Cloned]

Asking because LA and Edmonton combined for 5 shots in the first period.

 

[The Pale King]

This is what I would have expected from a Kings-Oilers game in 2003-04, not 2023.

 

[tabness]

Oilers are lowkey pretty good defensively on top of the best offensively, goalies are the weak link. I know Ken Holland gets so much crap and all, but give him some credit here.

 

[NotAVacuumSalesman]

Oilers are lowkey pretty good defensively on top of the best offensively, goalies are the weak link. I know Ken Holland gets so much crap and all, but give him some credit here.

That's not what HFB's been telling me.. Everyone says they don't play defense and don't have a starting goalie.

 

[Oil Gauge]

Asking because LA and Edmonton combined for 5 shots in the first period.

For a 5 shot period it was a pretty exciting 20 minutes. Fast paced playoff intensity.

 

[bobbyking]

sharks are good at doing nothing all game

 

[tarheelhockey]

This is a difficult record to determine, as it appears the NHL doesn’t actually keep an official record of fewest shots in a period or game.

A good place to start would be the 5/8/00 game where New Jersey notoriously knocked the Leafs out of the playoffs with the Leafs taking only 6 shots. NJ had 26, so that’s a total of 32 which could plausibly be the record.

 

[WarriorofTime]

There was a world junior final around twenty years ago, I think it was Russia vs. Czech Republic and both teams played a neutral zone trap and took turns dumping the puck back and forth the entire game. It ended 0-0 and stayed 0-0 through overtime. I’m surprised both teams didn’t try dumping the puck in the shootout.

 

[Dempsey]

There was a world junior final around twenty years ago, I think it was Russia vs. Czech Republic and both teams played a neutral zone trap and took turns dumping the puck back and forth the entire game. It ended 0-0 and stayed 0-0 through overtime. I’m surprised both teams didn’t try dumping the puck in the shootout.

There's been a surprising amount of 0-0 ties in the NHL over the years. Now days of course it goes to a shootout.

 

[ConnorMcMullet]

This is a difficult record to determine, as it appears the NHL doesn’t actually keep an official record of fewest shots in a period or game.

A good place to start would be the 5/8/00 game where New Jersey notoriously knocked the Leafs out of the playoffs with the Leafs taking only 6 shots. NJ had 26, so that’s a total of 32 which could plausibly be the record.

The fewest total shots recorded in a game is 28, which occurred twice: MTL vs PHI (3-1) in 2009, and NYR vs NJD (2-0) in 2012. Between those two games, the fewest number of shots in a period was 5 in the 1st period of the MTL/PHI game, matching the 5 shots we saw in the 1st period yesterday. So there's a decent chance that the Oilers game last night tied the record @Cloned.

A couple interesting tidbits I came across:

1) The fewest number of shots by a winning team seems to be 9, which has occurred twice. What I found interesting is that this happened just a few months apart by the Maple Leafs and the Sharks in the 1998-19 season, and they both won by a score of 4-0.​

​

2) Technically, the fewest number of shots recorded in a game came during G4 of the 88-89 SCF between Boston and Edmonton, with 25 total. But that's because the game was cut short due to a power outage.​

 

[KCC]

Oilers are lowkey pretty good defensively on top of the best offensively, goalies are the weak link. I know Ken Holland gets so much crap and all, but give him some credit here.

Honestly since Ekholm has jumped on board they've been lights out. Prior to they did give up way too many grade A chances at times. Nurse was playing way too many minutes and taking on way more than he could handle. Probably because he was being paid like it. Ekholm has taken the load off of him shoulders. Dude is a rock back there. Basically reminds me of a Pronger type player. Someone EDM has needed desperately since, well, Pronger in 06. Been a long time. lol

 

[Shark Finn]

sharks are good at doing nothing all game

Except losing in OT

 

[Shibumi]

There's been a surprising amount of 0-0 ties in the NHL over the years. Now days of course it goes to a shootout.

The Oilers played a game a few years back that had a 0-0 tie going into the shootout which the Oilers won. The final boxscore was the Oilers winning the game 0-0.

 

[JianYang]

Somehow I think the devils would be involved.

I'm also not surprised that LA is involved in such a game this year based on what I've seen from them. Its not a style that's easy to watch.

 

[All Mighty]

Somehow the Ducks’ cup clinching win in 2007 had a total of 31 shots, even though 8 goals were scored.

 

[tarheelhockey]

The fewest total shots recorded in a game is 28, which occurred twice: MTL vs PHI (3-1) in 2009, and NYR vs NJD (2-0) in 2012.

We’re on watch for this in tonight’s CAR/VAN game. 26 total shots with 5 minutes remaining.

Edit: make that 28 with some time left, probably won’t be a record tying night.