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Compare players, 1972-73 season

At a glance

Billy Smith Jacques Plante

Save %Goals againstWorkloadGamesThe typical playerBilly Smith: Save %, 0.878, 18th percentileBilly Smith: Goals against, 3.97 a game, 9th percentileBilly Smith: Workload, 32.6 shots a game, 88th percentileBilly Smith: Games, 37 games, 44th percentileJacques Plante: Save %, 0.911, 82nd percentileJacques Plante: Goals against, 2.58 a game, 74th percentileJacques Plante: Workload, 29.0 shots a game, 47th percentileJacques Plante: Games, 40 games, 50th 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

Billy Smith G, NYI 1972-73 Jacques Plante G, BOS
37 Games played 40
7 Wins 15
24 Losses 15
0 Shutouts 3
1,207 Shots against 1,158
1,060 Saves 1,055
147 Goals against 103
0.878 Save % 0.911
4.16 Goals against average 2.82

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.