GNHL🏛 Hall of Fame · 1976 🌅 Early Bloomer · 1960

Johnny Bower

5'11" · 189 lbsBorn November 8, 19241954–1970NHL.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

19.5

1960, 1961, 1964 avg

Career VAL

150.6

Value Above League

Games

552

Wins

250

Playoff VAL

50.5

postseason

Career Shape

Balanced

39% in peak 3y

Career arc · VAL by season

12 seasons · peak 20.4 in 1960 · league-best season: 1960

All-time standings

Career boards only, within NHL

Cross-sport prominence: 98.0th percentile among NHL careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.

Franchise face

Etched into the franchise monument

#4 · Toronto Maple Leafs154.6 legacy · 92% attributed career shareVAL × verified franchise tenure, with bounded honors evidence

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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.

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Methodology · Trust Center

Season	Age	Team	GP	GS	W	L	OTL	SV	GA	GAA	SV%	SO	VAL
1954	28–29	New York Rangers	70	70	29	31	—	—	178	2.54	—	5	3.7
1955	29–30	New York Rangers	5	5	2	2	—	—	13	2.60	—	0	—
1957	31–32	New York Rangers	2	2	0	2	—	45	6	3.01	.882	0	—
1959	33–34	Toronto Maple Leafs	39	39	15	17	—	1,128	106	2.72	.914	3	7.4
1960	34–35	Toronto Maple Leafs	66	66	34	24	—	2,007	177	2.69	.919	5	20.4
1961	35–36	Toronto Maple Leafs	58	58	33	15	—	1,725	145	2.50	.922	2	19.9
1962	36–37	Toronto Maple Leafs	59	59	31	18	—	1,675	151	2.56	.917	2	14.1
1963	37–38	Toronto Maple Leafs	42	42	20	15	—	1,130	109	2.60	.912	1	7
1964	38–39	Toronto Maple Leafs	51	51	24	15	—	1,451	106	2.11	.932	5	18.1
1965	39–40	Toronto Maple Leafs	34	34	14	13	—	986	81	2.38	.924	3	12.2
1966	40–41	Toronto Maple Leafs	35	34	18	10	—	997	75	2.26	.930	3	17.9
1967	41–42	Toronto Maple Leafs	27	24	11	8	—	776	63	2.65	.925	2	10.7
1968	42–43	Toronto Maple Leafs	43	40	13	17	—	1,191	84	2.26	.934	4	18
1969	43–44	Toronto Maple Leafs	20	12	6	4	—	369	37	2.86	.909	2	1.2
1970	44–45	Toronto Maple Leafs	1	1	0	1	—	33	5	5.00	.868	0	—