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Jim Rutherford

#29 · Goalie · Detroit Red Wings

Born Feb 17, 1949 in Beeton, Ontario, CAN · 5'8", 168 lb · Catches left · Drafted 10th overall in 1969 by DET (round 1)

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Jim Gregory General Manager of the Year Award GM of the Year 2015-16

Compare with a similar player

The goalies closest to him in games played in 1978-79. Pick one to see the two side by side, or choose someone else.

Glen Hanlon VAN · 31 GP, 0.898 Wayne Thomas NYR · 31 GP, 0.866 Michel Larocque MTL · 34 GP, 0.888 Ron Grahame LAK · 34 GP, 0.862 Jim Bedard WSH · 30 GP, 0.863

Career

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

020401970-71: 29 games2970-711971-72: 40 games4071-721972-73: 49 games4972-731973-74: 51 games5173-741974-75: 59 games5974-751975-76: 44 games4475-761976-77: 48 games4876-771977-78: 43 games4377-781978-79: 32 games3278-791979-80: 23 games2379-801980-81: 31 games3180-811981-82: 7 games781-821982-83: 1 games182-83

Games played by season. The darker bar is the season shown below.

Season Team GP WLTOTLSO Shots against Saves Goals against GAA Save %
1970-71 DET 29 715301 761 667 94 3.77 0.876
1971-72 PIT 40 1715501 1066 950 116 3.23 0.891
1972-73 PIT 49 2022503 1460 1331 129 2.92 0.912
1973-74 PIT 26 712400 699 617 82 3.45 0.883
1973-74 DET 25 911400 767 681 86 3.64 0.888
1974-75 DET 59 20291002 1770 1553 217 3.75 0.877
1975-76 DET 44 1325604 1379 1221 158 3.60 0.885
1976-77 DET 48 734600 1351 1171 180 3.95 0.867
1977-78 DET 43 2017401 1119 985 134 3.26 0.880
1978-79 DET 32 1314501 885 782 103 3.27 0.884
1979-80 DET 23 613301 631 539 92 4.18 0.854
1980-81 DET 10 26200 286 243 43 4.30 0.850
1980-81 TOR 18 410200 550 469 81 5.07 0.853
1980-81 LAK 3 30000 96 86 10 3.33 0.896
1981-82 LAK 7 33000 207 164 43 6.79 0.792
1982-83 DET 1 01000 39 32 7 7.00 0.821
13 seasons Career 457 15122759014 13066 11491 1575 3.66 0.879

Playoffs

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

Season Team GP WLOTLSO Shots against Saves Goals against GAA Save %
1971-72 PIT 4 0400 145 131 14 3.50 0.903
1977-78 DET 3 2100 87 75 12 4.01 0.862
1980-81 LAK 1 0000 8 6 2 6.00 0.750
3 seasons Playoffs 8 2500 240 212 28 3.82 0.883

1978-79 season totals

GP Starts WLTOTLSO Shots against Saves Goals against GAA Save %
32 31 1314501 885 782 103 3.27 0.884

Game log

Date Opponent Result Decision Shots against Saves Goals against Save % TOI
Apr 8, 1979 vs MTL W 1-0 W, SO 22 22 0 1.000 60:00
Apr 4, 1979 @ MTL L 1-4 L 37 33 4 0.892 60:00
Apr 1, 1979 vs MNS W 3-1 W 20 19 1 0.950 60:00
Mar 31, 1979 vs LAK L 4-5 L 28 23 5 0.821 59:45
Mar 27, 1979 @ VAN L 2-5 L 31 26 5 0.839 60:00
Mar 25, 1979 vs TOR W 2-1 W 29 28 1 0.966 60:00
Mar 24, 1979 @ BOS L 2-5 L 27 22 5 0.815 60:00
Mar 21, 1979 @ TOR W 4-2 W 34 32 2 0.941 60:00
Mar 20, 1979 vs CHI W 5-3 W 29 26 3 0.897 60:00
Mar 18, 1979 @ CHI W 4-2 W 26 24 2 0.923 60:00
Mar 17, 1979 @ STL W 3-1 W 31 30 1 0.968 60:00
Mar 14, 1979 @ WSH W 4-1 W 33 32 1 0.970 60:00
Mar 12, 1979 @ MTL T 3-3 T 41 38 3 0.927 60:00
Mar 11, 1979 vs WSH T 3-3 T 20 17 3 0.850 60:00
Mar 7, 1979 @ MNS L 1-5 L 31 26 5 0.839 60:00
Mar 4, 1979 vs BOS L 4-6 L 35 29 6 0.829 60:00
Mar 3, 1979 @ MTL W 5-3 W 32 29 3 0.906 60:00
Feb 18, 1979 vs PIT W 6-2 W 28 26 2 0.929 60:00
Jan 27, 1979 vs BUF L 3-6 L 34 28 6 0.824 60:00
Jan 7, 1979 @ BUF L 3-4 L 25 21 4 0.840 60:00
Dec 31, 1978 vs PIT L 4-5 L 30 25 5 0.833 52:21
Dec 13, 1978 vs AFM T 5-5 T 24 19 5 0.792 59:33
Dec 7, 1978 @ BOS L 5-6 L 24 18 6 0.750 60:00
Dec 2, 1978 @ LAK L 2-5 L 28 23 5 0.821 60:00
Nov 26, 1978 vs LAK W 4-2 W 17 15 2 0.882 60:00
Nov 22, 1978 @ LAK T 3-3 T 23 20 3 0.870 60:00
Nov 18, 1978 vs BUF L 1-3 L 21 19 2 0.905 59:24
Nov 11, 1978 vs BOS W 7-1 W 17 16 1 0.941 59:57
Nov 4, 1978 @ PIT L 3-7 L 30 24 6 0.800 40:00
Oct 27, 1978 @ CLR W 5-2 W 39 37 2 0.949 60:00
Oct 19, 1978 vs NYR T 2-2 T 17 15 2 0.882 59:55
Oct 14, 1978 vs PHI L 1-3 L 22 20 2 0.909 59:22