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Brian Rafalski

#28 · Defence · Detroit Red Wings

Born Sep 28, 1973 in Dearborn, Michigan, USA · 5'10", 194 lb · Shoots right

Trophy case

×3 Stanley Cup NHL Champion 2007-08, 2002-03, 1999-00

Compare with a similar player

The defencemen closest to him in points in 2002-03. Pick one to see the two side by side, or choose someone else.

Kimmo Timonen NSH · 40 P in 72 GP Scott Niedermayer NJD · 39 P in 81 GP Kim Johnsson PHI · 39 P in 82 GP Zdeno Chara OTT · 39 P in 74 GP Roman Hamrlik NYI · 41 P in 73 GP

Career

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

020401999-00: 32 points3299-002000-01: 52 points5200-012001-02: 47 points4701-022002-03: 40 points4002-032003-04: 36 points3603-042005-06: 49 points4905-062006-07: 55 points5506-072007-08: 55 points5507-082008-09: 59 points5908-092009-10: 42 points4209-102010-11: 48 points4810-11

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

Season Team GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP
1999-00 NJD 75 5 27 32 21 28 128 102 0.43
2000-01 NJD 78 9 43 52 36 26 142 82 0.67
2001-02 NJD 76 7 40 47 15 18 125 61 0.62
2002-03 NJD 79 3 37 40 18 14 178 19 0.51
2003-04 NJD 69 6 30 36 6 24 130 28 0.52
2005-06 NJD 82 6 43 49 0 36 126 56 0.60
2006-07 NJD 82 8 47 55 4 34 148 60 0.67
2007-08 DET 73 13 42 55 27 34 175 38 0.75
2008-09 DET 78 10 49 59 17 20 141 33 0.76
2009-10 DET 78 8 34 42 23 26 134 39 0.54
2010-11 DET 63 4 44 48 11 22 106 49 0.76
11 seasons Career 833 79 436 515 178 282 1533 567 0.62

Playoffs

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

Season Team GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP
1999-00 NJD 23 2 6 8 5 8 31 34 0.35
2000-01 NJD 25 7 11 18 10 7 47 34 0.72
2001-02 NJD 6 3 2 5 -2 4 19 2 0.83
2002-03 NJD 23 2 9 11 7 8 36 19 0.48
2003-04 NJD 5 0 1 1 0 0 9 6 0.20
2005-06 NJD 9 1 8 9 3 2 9 11 1.00
2006-07 NJD 11 2 6 8 -1 8 11 12 0.73
2007-08 DET 22 4 10 14 6 12 58 14 0.64
2008-09 DET 18 3 9 12 11 11 24 12 0.67
2009-10 DET 12 3 8 11 4 2 23 10 0.92
2010-11 DET 11 2 1 3 -1 4 23 10 0.27
11 seasons Playoffs 165 29 71 100 42 66 290 164 0.61

2002-03 season totals

GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP Shooting % Avg TOI
79 3 37 40 18 14 178 19 0.51 1.7 23:09

Game log

Date Opponent Result G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI
Apr 6, 2003 @ BUF T 2-2 (OT) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 26:11
Apr 4, 2003 @ NYR W 2-1 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 21:39
Apr 3, 2003 vs BOS T 1-1 (OT) 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 27:02
Apr 1, 2003 vs TOR L 2-3 (OT) 0 1 1 0 0 3 1 23:29
Mar 30, 2003 vs NYI W 6-0 0 0 0 3 2 0 0 24:06
Mar 28, 2003 @ ATL T 1-1 (OT) 0 0 0 -1 0 4 0 25:40
Mar 27, 2003 @ TBL T 2-2 (OT) 0 1 1 1 0 2 0 26:11
Mar 24, 2003 @ FLA W 4-1 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 22:09
Mar 22, 2003 @ NYI W 4-2 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 25:23
Mar 21, 2003 vs PIT W 3-1 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 23:58
Mar 18, 2003 @ MTL W 1-0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 24:30
Mar 17, 2003 vs PHI L 2-4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 21:55
Mar 15, 2003 vs NYR W 3-1 0 0 0 1 0 3 1 21:06
Mar 13, 2003 @ BOS L 3-4 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 23:11
Mar 11, 2003 vs ATL L 2-3 0 0 0 -2 0 2 0 24:28
Mar 8, 2003 @ NYI W 4-2 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 22:45
Mar 5, 2003 @ CGY L 4-5 (OT) 1 1 2 2 0 3 1 26:48
Mar 4, 2003 @ MIN L 2-3 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 23:00
Mar 1, 2003 vs WSH W 2-1 (OT) 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 25:39
Feb 27, 2003 @ NYI T 3-3 (OT) 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 27:23
Feb 25, 2003 vs NYR T 3-3 (OT) 0 0 0 -1 0 3 1 26:28
Feb 23, 2003 @ PIT W 4-3 0 2 2 1 0 2 2 24:32
Feb 21, 2003 vs BOS W 3-2 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 21:58
Feb 19, 2003 vs OTT L 3-5 0 1 1 -2 0 0 0 29:09
Feb 18, 2003 @ PHI T 2-2 (OT) 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 22:43
Feb 15, 2003 vs PIT L 1-4 1 0 1 -1 0 3 0 20:28
Feb 12, 2003 @ PHX W 3-0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 23:35
Feb 11, 2003 @ COL L 1-3 0 1 1 -1 0 3 1 22:07
Feb 9, 2003 vs MIN W 3-2 0 1 1 1 0 3 0 22:13
Feb 7, 2003 vs ATL L 2-4 0 0 0 -2 0 5 0 23:44
Feb 5, 2003 @ WSH W 4-1 0 1 1 1 0 3 0 23:50
Feb 4, 2003 vs BUF W 4-1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 24:05
Jan 30, 2003 vs PHI W 5-1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 18:47
Jan 28, 2003 vs DET W 1-0 0 1 1 0 0 4 0 23:11
Jan 25, 2003 @ LAK L 1-2 (OT) 0 0 0 -1 0 3 1 23:58
Jan 24, 2003 @ ANA W 3-1 0 1 1 1 0 3 0 19:45
Jan 22, 2003 @ SJS W 5-4 (OT) 0 1 1 2 2 3 0 24:54
Jan 18, 2003 vs CAR W 5-2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 20:17
Jan 17, 2003 @ CAR W 2-1 0 0 0 0 2 3 0 21:15
Jan 15, 2003 vs NYI W 5-0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 22:56
Jan 13, 2003 vs FLA W 6-2 0 1 1 0 0 5 0 24:34
Jan 11, 2003 @ TBL T 3-3 (OT) 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 26:25
Jan 10, 2003 @ FLA W 2-1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 23:01
Jan 7, 2003 vs MTL W 3-2 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 28:49
Jan 4, 2003 @ TOR L 1-2 0 1 1 0 0 5 0 23:07
Jan 3, 2003 vs TOR W 2-0 0 1 1 1 0 2 2 23:31
Jan 1, 2003 vs FLA L 1-2 0 1 1 -1 0 5 0 24:21
Dec 30, 2002 @ BOS W 1-0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 24:08
Dec 28, 2002 vs WSH W 2-1 (OT) 0 0 0 0 0 8 0 23:33
Dec 27, 2002 @ WSH L 2-3 0 2 2 0 0 6 0 21:10
Dec 23, 2002 @ NYR T 2-2 (OT) 0 2 2 1 0 5 0 23:35
Dec 21, 2002 vs DAL W 5-3 0 2 2 4 0 3 0 20:58
Dec 19, 2002 @ PIT W 3-1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 23:33
Dec 18, 2002 vs OTT L 0-3 0 0 0 -2 0 3 0 23:33
Dec 7, 2002 @ TOR L 0-1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 02:45
Dec 6, 2002 vs PIT W 3-1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 27:31
Dec 4, 2002 vs VAN L 2-3 (OT) 0 0 0 -2 0 5 0 25:15
Dec 2, 2002 @ PHI W 1-0 (OT) 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 25:46
Nov 30, 2002 @ STL W 5-4 (OT) 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 26:56
Nov 29, 2002 @ NSH W 2-1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 24:09
Nov 27, 2002 @ DET L 2-3 (OT) 0 1 1 0 0 3 0 23:50
Nov 23, 2002 vs TBL L 1-3 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 21:24
Nov 21, 2002 vs NYR T 4-4 (OT) 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 24:10
Nov 19, 2002 vs BUF W 4-3 (OT) 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 19:14
Nov 16, 2002 @ MTL L 1-3 0 0 0 -1 0 4 1 23:17
Nov 15, 2002 vs MTL W 5-1 0 2 2 -1 0 2 0 22:49
Nov 12, 2002 vs ANA W 3-2 (OT) 0 0 0 -1 2 2 0 24:33
Nov 9, 2002 vs EDM L 3-6 1 1 2 -3 0 4 0 23:55
Nov 7, 2002 @ PHI W 1-0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 20:25
Nov 5, 2002 vs CGY L 2-3 0 0 0 1 2 2 0 21:44
Nov 2, 2002 vs CHI W 5-1 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 20:24
Oct 29, 2002 vs CAR L 1-2 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 21:09
Oct 26, 2002 vs TBL W 5-1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 18:54
Oct 25, 2002 @ BUF W 2-1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 19:51
Oct 23, 2002 @ ATL W 2-1 0 1 1 2 0 4 0 20:22
Oct 19, 2002 @ CAR L 1-3 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 23:30
Oct 18, 2002 vs NSH W 3-2 (OT) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 22:37
Oct 12, 2002 vs CBJ W 3-2 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 21:40
Oct 10, 2002 @ OTT W 2-1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 21:35