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Compare players, 1980-81 season

At a glance

Al Smith Gilles Meloche

Save %Goals againstWorkloadGamesThe typical playerAl Smith: Save %, 0.836, 1st percentileAl Smith: Goals against, 4.19 a game, 9th percentileAl Smith: Workload, 25.6 shots a game, 19th percentileAl Smith: Games, 36 games, 49th percentileGilles Meloche: Save %, 0.888, 70th percentileGilles Meloche: Goals against, 3.16 a game, 72nd percentileGilles Meloche: Workload, 28.3 shots a game, 47th percentileGilles Meloche: Games, 38 games, 53rd percentile

On the radar, each spoke runs from the lowest at the centre to the league leader at the rim, among the 43 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

Al Smith G, CLR 1980-81 Gilles Meloche G, PIT
36 Games played 38
9 Wins 17
18 Losses 14
0 Shutouts 2
923 Shots against 1,076
772 Saves 956
151 Goals against 120
0.836 Save % 0.888
4.76 Goals against average 3.26

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.