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Compare players, 2009-10 season

At a glance

Jimmy Howard Niklas Backstrom

Save %Goals againstWorkloadGamesThe typical playerJimmy Howard: Save %, 0.924, 91st percentileJimmy Howard: Goals against, 2.24 a game, 85th percentileJimmy Howard: Workload, 29.3 shots a game, 70th percentileJimmy Howard: Games, 63 games, 77th percentileNiklas Backstrom: Save %, 0.903, 23rd percentileNiklas Backstrom: Goals against, 2.63 a game, 28th percentileNiklas Backstrom: Workload, 27.2 shots a game, 38th percentileNiklas Backstrom: Games, 60 games, 74th percentile

On the radar, each spoke runs from the lowest at the centre to the league leader at the rim, among the 53 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

Jimmy Howard G, DET 2009-10 Niklas Backstrom G, CGY
63 Games played 60
37 Wins 26
15 Losses 23
3 Shutouts 2
1,849 Shots against 1,632
1,708 Saves 1,474
141 Goals against 158
0.924 Save % 0.903
2.26 Goals against average 2.72
Contract
$717K Cap hit $6M

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.