The 2025-2026 hockey season has officially come to a close and now it is time for the official tally of how many games occurred where the goalies wore the same numbers!
In the regular season the league with the most games was the ECHL with 142. The ECHL plays 1080 games in a regular season so 938 games did not have goalies with the same numbers. The ECHL also had the most playoff games with 22 where the goalies wore the same number.
In second place with the most regular season games with the same goalie numbers was the AHL with 105 games. An AHL regular season has 1152 games so there were 1047 games that did not have the same goalie number. In the playoffs there were only 6 games where the goalies had the same number.
In third place for the amount of games in the regular season was the NHL with 64 games where the goalies wore the same numbers. There are 1312 games in an NHL regular season so there were 1248 games where the goalies didn’t wear the same number. In the playoffs there were only two NHL games where the goalies wore the same number.
The PWHL does have the least amount of games so they did have the least amount of games in the regular season where the goalies wore the same number with 5, atleast we had any at all! There are 120 PWHL games in a season so there were 115 regular season games where the goalies didn’t wear the same number. In the playoffs there were 2 PWHL games where the goalies did wear the same number.
This year we had the Winter Olympics so I did track those numbers as well. There were 3 men’s hockey games and 1 women’s hockey games that had the same goalie number.
I had a lot of fun tracking the numbers this season and I look forward to continuing it for the 26-27 season!
