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Compare players, 1971-72 season

At a glance

Jacques Plante Eddie Johnston

Save %Goals againstWorkloadGamesThe typical playerJacques Plante: Save %, 0.917, 79th percentileJacques Plante: Goals against, 2.53 a game, 64th percentileJacques Plante: Workload, 30.4 shots a game, 71st percentileJacques Plante: Games, 34 games, 39th percentileEddie Johnston: Save %, 0.899, 46th percentileEddie Johnston: Goals against, 2.68 a game, 50th percentileEddie Johnston: Workload, 26.5 shots a game, 21st percentileEddie Johnston: Games, 38 games, 50th 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

Jacques Plante G, BOS 1971-72 Eddie Johnston G, CHI
34 Games played 38
16 Wins 27
13 Losses 8
2 Shutouts 2
1,032 Shots against 1,006
946 Saves 904
86 Goals against 102
0.917 Save % 0.899
2.63 Goals against average 2.71

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.