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Compare players, 1971-72 season

At a glance

Ken Dryden Gilles Meloche

Save %Goals againstWorkloadGamesThe typical playerKen Dryden: Save %, 0.930, 89th percentileKen Dryden: Goals against, 2.22 a game, 82nd percentileKen Dryden: Workload, 31.7 shots a game, 82nd percentileKen Dryden: Games, 64 games, 96th percentileGilles Meloche: Save %, 0.893, 36th percentileGilles Meloche: Goals against, 3.09 a game, 32nd percentileGilles Meloche: Workload, 29.0 shots a game, 57th percentileGilles Meloche: Games, 56 games, 89th percentile

On the radar, each spoke runs from the lowest at the centre to the league leader at the rim, among the 28 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

Ken Dryden G, MTL 1971-72 Gilles Meloche G, PIT
64 Games played 56
39 Wins 16
8 Losses 25
8 Shutouts 4
2,030 Shots against 1,623
1,888 Saves 1,450
142 Goals against 173
0.930 Save % 0.893
2.24 Goals against average 3.33

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.