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Compare players, 1975-76 season

At a glance

Billy Smith Gilles Meloche

Save %Goals againstWorkloadGamesThe typical playerBilly Smith: Save %, 0.908, 88th percentileBilly Smith: Goals against, 2.51 a game, 81st percentileBilly Smith: Workload, 27.4 shots a game, 28th percentileBilly Smith: Games, 39 games, 38th percentileGilles Meloche: Save %, 0.888, 50th percentileGilles Meloche: Goals against, 3.41 a game, 38th percentileGilles Meloche: Workload, 30.6 shots a game, 69th percentileGilles Meloche: Games, 41 games, 47th percentile

On the radar, each spoke runs from the lowest at the centre to the league leader at the rim, among the 32 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

Billy Smith G, NYI 1975-76 Gilles Meloche G, PIT
39 Games played 41
19 Wins 12
10 Losses 23
3 Shutouts 1
1,067 Shots against 1,253
969 Saves 1,113
98 Goals against 140
0.908 Save % 0.888
2.62 Goals against average 3.45

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.