What's the difference between goals and points in hockey?

Question

I was looking at some women's college hockey stats and there was one column that said "goals" and one column that said "points"

whats the difference?

Answer 1

goals are points but the points are also added with assists, so the goals and assists = points!

Answer 2

Points include goals and assist together it's simple

Answer 3

wooooow waw you gotta be kidding me. its the same as nhl

Answer 4

goals are goals points are

goals and assists combined into one stat

Answer 5

Goals are what the Red Wings score.  Points are what they attain for the games they win because of the goals they score.  The Red Wings have a lot of both every year.

Answer 6

goals are the number of goals you score

points are the number of goals you score, plus assists

example-

20 goals

30 assists

50 points

Answer 7

Points = Goals + Assists.

Answer 8

a goal equals a point.  an assist equals a point.  combined you get your total points.  they list them separately instead of just clumping it all into a basic total points category for hockey nerds like us that need to know how each point was earned.

Answer 9

Goals can only be scored by getting a goal...a player can score a point for a goal OR an assist

Answer 10

a goal is when u shoot it in the net. points are the sum of the amount of assists + goals. an assist is when u pass to another player who scores

Answer 11

points are a players goals and assists put together.

for example, a player will get an assist if they pass the puck to a teammate that scores

or...

if a player skates all the way down the ice and scores without help from teammates, then no assist is awarded to anyone.

Answer 12

)goals is how many times you are the person to shoot the puck in the net

points is the the total of  goals and assists (if you dont already know, an assist is when you pass the puck  to the person who scores. 2 assists can be given for 1 goal so if i passed to you and you passed to bob and he scores, he would get the goal and we would get the assists)

Answer 13

Goal is when someone scores. Points are the combined totals of goals and assists.

Answer 14

a person that actually scores a goal gets the credit for scoring the goal and then there are players who get credited fror assists on those goals and those are credited as points for example if a player hets 15 goals and 20 assists the player will have 35 points total so that isthe where they get more points is by assisting a player for a goal

hope  that helped you out

Answer 15

Points are a combination of goals and assists, but goals are just goals

Answer 16

Points are goals and assists added together

Goals are just goals

Answer 17

a goal is a goal and a point is recieved for every goal and assist.  so the number of points is the number of goals and assists added up.