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Compare players, 1978-79 season

At a glance

Gerry Cheevers Bill Oleschuk

Save %Goals againstWorkloadGamesThe typical playerGerry Cheevers: Save %, 0.865, 16th percentileGerry Cheevers: Goals against, 3.07 a game, 68th percentileGerry Cheevers: Workload, 22.8 shots a game, 3rd percentileGerry Cheevers: Games, 43 games, 71st percentileBill Oleschuk: Save %, 0.874, 39th percentileBill Oleschuk: Goals against, 3.40 a game, 32nd percentileBill Oleschuk: Workload, 27.1 shots a game, 34th percentileBill Oleschuk: Games, 40 games, 63rd percentile

On the radar, each spoke runs from the lowest at the centre to the league leader at the rim, among the 38 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

Gerry Cheevers G, BOS 1978-79 Bill Oleschuk G, CLR
43 Games played 40
23 Wins 6
9 Losses 19
1 Shutouts 1
981 Shots against 1,082
849 Saves 946
132 Goals against 136
0.865 Save % 0.874
3.16 Goals against average 3.86

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.