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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

Trophy case

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

Compare with a similar player

The defencemen closest to him in points in 1972-73. Pick one to see the two side by side, or choose someone else.

Brent Hughes STL · 15 P in 37 GP Barry Long LAK · 15 P in 71 GP Harry Howell LAK · 15 P in 74 GP Bob McCord STL · 14 P in 45 GP Noel Price AFM · 14 P in 54 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

1972-73 season totals

GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP Shooting % Avg TOI
46 3 12 15 -4 22 45 0 0.33 6.7 0:00

Game log

Date Opponent Result G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI
Apr 1, 1973 @ AFM T 4-4 0 0 0 0 2 3 0 00:00
Mar 31, 1973 @ PHI L 2-10 0 0 0 -5 2 1 0 00:00
Mar 27, 1973 vs BUF L 2-3 0 0 0 -1 0 5 0 00:00
Mar 24, 1973 vs PHI W 3-2 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 00:00
Mar 20, 1973 vs CGS W 6-3 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 00:00
Mar 17, 1973 vs STL W 6-4 0 1 1 -2 2 0 0 00:00
Mar 13, 1973 vs BOS L 0-3 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 00:00
Mar 10, 1973 @ STL L 4-5 0 1 1 1 2 0 0 00:00
Mar 8, 1973 vs TOR L 1-4 0 0 0 0 4 3 0 00:00
Mar 6, 1973 vs MTL L 2-3 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 00:00
Mar 4, 1973 vs TOR W 10-0 0 1 1 3 0 0 0 00:00
Mar 1, 1973 vs LAK L 0-2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00:00
Feb 18, 1973 vs MNS W 5-1 0 2 2 1 2 1 0 00:00
Feb 17, 1973 @ MTL W 7-6 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 00:00
Feb 15, 1973 vs BOS L 1-3 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 00:00
Feb 13, 1973 vs NYI W 8-2 2 0 2 2 0 3 0 00:00
Feb 11, 1973 @ CHI L 2-7 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 00:00
Feb 9, 1973 @ VAN W 10-5 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 00:00
Feb 7, 1973 @ LAK L 1-2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 00:00
Feb 4, 1973 @ BOS T 2-2 0 0 0 -1 2 0 0 00:00
Feb 3, 1973 vs CHI T 2-2 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 00:00
Feb 1, 1973 vs VAN W 5-4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00:00
Jan 28, 1973 vs CGS W 4-3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 00:00
Jan 27, 1973 @ PIT W 5-3 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 00:00
Jan 25, 1973 vs PIT W 6-3 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 00:00
Jan 23, 1973 vs DET T 4-4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00:00
Jan 21, 1973 @ BUF W 4-3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00:00
Jan 20, 1973 @ MTL L 3-6 0 0 0 -2 0 0 0 00:00
Jan 18, 1973 vs MNS W 6-1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 00:00
Dec 20, 1972 @ CHI L 1-4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00:00
Nov 16, 1972 @ MTL L 5-6 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 00:00
Nov 15, 1972 @ NYR L 3-7 0 0 0 -2 0 1 0 00:00
Nov 12, 1972 vs CGS W 8-3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00:00
Nov 11, 1972 vs BUF W 3-1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 00:00
Nov 9, 1972 vs CHI W 5-3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00:00
Nov 8, 1972 @ PIT L 2-5 0 0 0 -1 2 1 0 00:00
Nov 5, 1972 vs NYR L 2-3 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 00:00
Nov 4, 1972 vs BUF W 5-3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 00:00
Nov 2, 1972 vs PIT W 4-2 0 1 1 -1 0 3 0 00:00
Oct 29, 1972 vs TOR W 5-2 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 00:00
Oct 20, 1972 @ CGS T 3-3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00:00
Oct 18, 1972 @ LAK W 4-3 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 00:00
Oct 15, 1972 vs CGS L 1-4 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 00:00
Oct 14, 1972 @ DET L 0-5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00:00
Oct 12, 1972 vs VAN W 7-3 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 00:00
Oct 7, 1972 @ STL T 4-4 0 1 1 -1 0 2 0 00:00