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Compare players, 1973-74 season

At a glance

Jim Rutherford Billy Smith

Save %Goals againstWorkloadGamesThe typical playerJim Rutherford: Save %, 0.885, 19th percentileJim Rutherford: Goals against, 3.29 a game, 11th percentileJim Rutherford: Workload, 28.7 shots a game, 63rd percentileJim Rutherford: Games, 51 games, 70th percentileBilly Smith: Save %, 0.897, 41st percentileBilly Smith: Goals against, 2.91 a game, 52nd percentileBilly Smith: Workload, 28.3 shots a game, 52nd percentileBilly Smith: Games, 46 games, 59th percentile

On the radar, each spoke runs from the lowest at the centre to the league leader at the rim, among the 27 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

Jim Rutherford G, DET 1973-74 Billy Smith G, NYI
51 Games played 46
16 Wins 9
23 Losses 23
0 Shutouts 0
1,466 Shots against 1,300
1,298 Saves 1,166
168 Goals against 134
0.885 Save % 0.897
3.54 Goals against average 3.08

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.