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Compare players, 1996-97 season

At a glance

Craig Billington Bob Essensa

Save %Goals againstWorkloadGamesThe typical playerCraig Billington: Save %, 0.909, 71st percentileCraig Billington: Goals against, 2.30 a game, 75th percentileCraig Billington: Workload, 25.4 shots a game, 38th percentileCraig Billington: Games, 23 games, 4th percentileBob Essensa: Save %, 0.899, 33rd percentileBob Essensa: Goals against, 2.16 a game, 92nd percentileBob Essensa: Workload, 21.4 shots a game, 4th percentileBob Essensa: Games, 19 games, 1st percentile

On the radar, each spoke runs from the lowest at the centre to the league leader at the rim, among the 48 goalies who played at least a quarter as many games as the busiest. The gap between two players on a spoke is the real gap between their numbers. The dashed shape is the typical player. Hover over a dot for the number.

The numbers

Craig Billington G, WSH 1996-97 Bob Essensa G, BUF
23 Games played 19
11 Wins 4
8 Losses 8
1 Shutouts 1
584 Shots against 406
531 Saves 365
53 Goals against 41
0.909 Save % 0.899
2.65 Goals against average 2.83

The better value in each stat is highlighted. Stats where more is not clearly better, such as games played, are not judged. Bars show each value against the larger of the two.