NHL shootouts: why the final score adds only one goal
Shootout conversions are not all added to the team score or a player's goal total.
The deciding procedure follows tied overtime
NHL Rule 84.4 uses a shootout after a tied five-minute regular-season overtime. Teams alternate attempts, starting with three each unless the result is decided earlier, then continue if necessary.
A shootout attempt is not an open-play overtime attack. The finish label is important when reading a result that otherwise looks like an ordinary one-goal win.
Only one goal is added to the winning team score
Regardless of the number of shootout conversions, Rule 84.4 records the winning team with one more goal than its opponent based on the tied score at the end of overtime.
Imagine regulation and overtime end 2-2 and one team wins the shootout 3-1. The game result becomes 3-2, not 5-3. The 3-1 shootout tally is a separate measure of successful attempts.
Personal statistics do not mirror that extra team goal
The rule says the player scoring the shootout winner is not credited with an extra personal goal. The losing goalkeeper is not charged with that additional goal against either.
A player-goals column staying unchanged despite a shootout win is therefore not automatically a data error. Use ScoreZaap's result status and any available deciding-method context, rather than adding shootout conversions to ordinary scoring statistics yourself.