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Jean Potvin

#3 · Defence · New York Islanders

Born Mar 25, 1949 in Hull, Quebec, CAN · 5'10", 187 lb · Shoots right

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×2 Stanley Cup NHL Champion 1980-81, 1979-80

Compare with a similar player

The defencemen closest to him in points in 1970-71. Pick one to see the two side by side, or choose someone else.

Serge Lajeunesse DET · 4 P in 63 GP Andre Dupont NYR · 3 P in 10 GP John Schella VAN · 5 P in 40 GP Bill Plager STL · 3 P in 45 GP Dennis O'Brien MNS · 5 P in 46 GP

Career

Regular season games only. Pick a season to see its game log below.

02040601970-71: 4 points470-711971-72: 20 points2071-721972-73: 15 points1572-731973-74: 28 points2873-741974-75: 33 points3374-751975-76: 72 points7275-761976-77: 46 points4676-771977-78: 28 points2877-781978-79: 21 points2178-791979-80: 15 points1579-801980-81: 5 points580-81

Points by season. The darker bar is the season shown below.

Season Team GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP
1970-71 LAK 6 1 3 4 5 2 5 0 0.67
1971-72 LAK 50 2 3 5 -38 35 55 0 0.10
1971-72 PHI 29 3 12 15 -6 6 23 0 0.52
1972-73 PHI 36 3 9 12 -1 10 27 0 0.33
1972-73 NYI 10 0 3 3 -3 12 18 0 0.30
1973-74 NYI 78 5 23 28 -26 100 114 0 0.36
1974-75 NYI 73 9 24 33 -2 59 115 0 0.45
1975-76 NYI 78 17 55 72 16 74 167 0 0.92
1976-77 NYI 79 10 36 46 14 26 128 0 0.58
1977-78 NYI 34 1 10 11 11 8 36 0 0.32
1977-78 CLE 40 3 14 17 -5 30 86 0 0.43
1978-79 MNS 64 5 16 21 -10 65 89 0 0.33
1979-80 NYI 33 2 13 15 -11 26 48 0 0.45
1980-81 NYI 19 2 3 5 -4 25 16 0 0.26
11 seasons Career 629 63 224 287 -60 478 927 0 0.46

Playoffs

Playoff games only. Pick a season to see that year's bracket.

Season Team GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP
1974-75 NYI 15 2 4 6 -2 9 15 0 0.40
1975-76 NYI 13 0 1 1 -1 2 25 0 0.08
1976-77 NYI 11 0 4 4 2 6 20 0 0.36
1979-80 NYI 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00
4 seasons Playoffs 40 2 9 11 -1 17 60 0 0.28

1970-71 season totals

GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP Shooting % Avg TOI
6 1 3 4 5 2 5 0 0.67 20.0 0:00

Game log

Date Opponent Result G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI
Jan 7, 1971 @ PHI T 5-5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00:00
Jan 6, 1971 @ CHI W 4-2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00:00
Jan 3, 1971 vs STL L 3-7 0 1 1 0 2 1 0 00:00
Jan 2, 1971 vs MNS T 3-3 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 00:00
Dec 30, 1970 vs VAN L 1-4 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 00:00
Dec 26, 1970 vs CGS W 9-3 1 2 3 5 0 3 0 00:00