GNHL🏛 Hall of Fame · 1978 📈 Late Developer · 1971

Jacques Plante

6'0" · 175 lbsBorn January 17, 19291953–1973NHL.com ↗

NHL Stats

Career Snapshot

Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.

NHL profile

Peak 3Y VAL

24.4

1959, 1962, 1971 avg

Career VAL

205.5

Value Above League

Games

837

Wins

437

Playoff VAL

85.9

postseason

Career Shape

Compiler

36% in peak 3y

Career arc · VAL by season

17 seasons · peak 27.6 in 1971 · league-best seasons: 1958, 1959, 1962

All-time standings

Career boards only, within NHL

On the NHL Career Dominance board — top-25 in more than one all-time category at once.

Cross-sport prominence: 99.3th percentile among NHL careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.

On the boards· Appears on 3 boards

Boards that rank NHL careers

NHL Age Milestones — Youngest to 100 Goals, 500 Points, 50 Goals and 100 Points NHL Breakout Seasons — Biggest Career-High Leaps NHL Career Arc Types NHL Career Dominance — top-25 in multiple all-time categories NHL Clutch Delta — Who Rises in the Stanley Cup Playoffs NHL Compilers vs Comets — Career Shape NHL Consistency Index — Mr. Reliable vs Boom-Bust

Similar careers

Players whose careers had the same shape — total value, peak, best three-season stretch, length and when the value came — measured with VAL against their own leagues.

Where this data comes from

Rosters, bio, draft details, and season/career totals come directly from the NHL's own official public API.

NHL API — Official public API, keyless — no stated open licence

Methodology · Trust Center

Season	Age	Team	GP	GS	W	L	OTL	SV	GA	GAA	SV%	SO	VAL
1953	23–24	Montréal Canadiens	3	3	2	0	—	—	4	1.33	—	0	—
1954	24–25	Montréal Canadiens	17	17	7	5	—	—	24	1.41	—	5	6.5
1955	25–26	Montréal Canadiens	52	52	33	12	—	—	109	2.12	—	5	10
1956	26–27	Montréal Canadiens	64	64	42	12	—	1,570	119	1.86	.930	7	15.6
1957	27–28	Montréal Canadiens	61	61	31	18	—	1,401	122	2.00	.920	9	12.2
1958	28–29	Montréal Canadiens	57	57	34	14	—	1,442	119	2.11	.924	9	17.8
1959	29–30	Montréal Canadiens	67	67	38	16	—	1,780	144	2.16	.925	9	22.3
1960	30–31	Montréal Canadiens	69	69	40	17	—	1,883	175	2.54	.915	3	15
1961	31–32	Montréal Canadiens	40	40	23	11	—	1,056	112	2.80	.904	2	1.8
1962	32–33	Montréal Canadiens	70	70	42	14	—	1,994	166	2.37	.923	4	23.3
1963	33–34	Montréal Canadiens	56	56	22	14	—	1,428	138	2.49	.912	5	8.8
1964	34–35	New York Rangers	65	65	22	36	—	2,224	220	3.39	.910	3	1
1965	35–36	New York Rangers	33	33	10	17	—	1,008	109	3.38	.902	2	0.3
1969	39–40	St. Louis Blues	37	35	18	12	—	1,103	70	1.96	.940	5	19.8
1970	40–41	St. Louis Blues	32	32	18	9	—	750	67	2.19	.918	5	4.1
1971	41–42	Toronto Maple Leafs	40	40	24	11	—	1,224	73	1.89	.944	4	27.6
1972	42–43	Toronto Maple Leafs	34	34	16	13	—	946	86	2.63	.917	2	9.4
1973	43–44	All teams	40	37	15	15	—	1,055	103	2.82	.911	3	10