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Compare players, 1977-78 season

At a glance

Gerry Cheevers Gary Smith

Save %Goals againstWorkloadGamesThe typical playerGerry Cheevers: Save %, 0.889, 59th percentileGerry Cheevers: Goals against, 2.29 a game, 88th percentileGerry Cheevers: Workload, 20.7 shots a game, 3rd percentileGerry Cheevers: Games, 21 games, 9th percentileGary Smith: Save %, 0.873, 24th percentileGary Smith: Goals against, 3.85 a game, 9th percentileGary Smith: Workload, 30.4 shots a game, 79th percentileGary Smith: Games, 20 games, 3rd percentile

On the radar, each spoke runs from the lowest at the centre to the league leader at the rim, among the 34 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 1977-78 Gary Smith G, WIN
21 Games played 20
10 Wins 2
5 Losses 14
1 Shutouts 0
434 Shots against 607
386 Saves 530
48 Goals against 77
0.889 Save % 0.873
2.66 Goals against average 3.99

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.