Patrick Roy won 551 regular-season games, the third-highest total in NHL history behind Martin Brodeur’s 691 and Marc-Andre Fleury’s 575. He played 1,029 games over 19 seasons for two clubs, faced 28,346 shots and saved 25,800 of them, and he recorded 66 shutouts.
Four of the 30 franchises he faced beat him more often than they lost to him, and one of those four is emphatic about it. Roy went 7-12-10 against Philadelphia in 31 games, with a save percentage of .878, a goals-against average of 3.46, and no shutouts. Philadelphia is his worst opponent on all four measures at once, which no other club manages in even two.
At the other end sits San Jose, where he went 25-6-4 with a .937 save percentage and six shutouts, more than he recorded against any other club.
Patrick Roy’s stats against every NHL team
Regular season, career complete. Ranked by save percentage. Career: .9102 and 2.54.
| Opponent | GP | Record (W-L-T/OTL) | GA | SA | SV% | GAA | SO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Columbus Blue Jackets | 10 | 9-0-1 | 13 | 226 | .9425 | 1.29 | 3 |
| San Jose Sharks | 36 | 25-6-4 | 56 | 883 | .9366 | 1.59 | 6 |
| Minnesota Wild | 11 | 8-1-2 | 18 | 278 | .9353 | 1.61 | 3 |
| Tampa Bay Lightning | 17 | 7-9-1 | 37 | 489 | .9243 | 2.17 | 1 |
| Dallas Stars (Minnesota North Stars to 1993) | 48 | 20-15-11 | 102 | 1302 | .9217 | 2.19 | 3 |
| Montreal Canadiens | 11 | 8-1-2 | 25 | 318 | .9214 | 2.23 | 0 |
| Anaheim Ducks (Mighty Ducks) | 27 | 13-7-6 | 62 | 784 | .9209 | 2.25 | 2 |
| Chicago Blackhawks | 38 | 22-8-5 | 87 | 1079 | .9194 | 2.42 | 3 |
| Vancouver Canucks | 50 | 33-13-4 | 121 | 1471 | .9177 | 2.41 | 1 |
| Ottawa Senators | 22 | 13-7-2 | 54 | 649 | .9168 | 2.50 | 1 |
| New York Rangers | 30 | 17-9-4 | 76 | 913 | .9168 | 2.55 | 1 |
| Pittsburgh Penguins | 40 | 25-8-6 | 96 | 1144 | .9161 | 2.44 | 0 |
| Edmonton Oilers | 53 | 33-13-6 | 125 | 1478 | .9154 | 2.38 | 4 |
| Utah Mammoth (Phoenix Coyotes) | 23 | 12-7-4 | 52 | 614 | .9153 | 2.24 | 3 |
| Boston Bruins | 68 | 38-22-7 | 170 | 1994 | .9147 | 2.54 | 2 |
| Nashville Predators | 16 | 8-3-4 | 32 | 374 | .9144 | 2.18 | 0 |
| Washington Capitals | 31 | 11-12-6 | 70 | 805 | .9130 | 2.32 | 3 |
| St. Louis Blues | 40 | 20-12-7 | 97 | 1108 | .9125 | 2.45 | 3 |
| Winnipeg Jets (see note) | 17 | 14-2-1 | 38 | 433 | .9122 | 2.32 | 2 |
| New York Islanders | 34 | 23-9-1 | 82 | 921 | .9110 | 2.59 | 2 |
| New Jersey Devils | 35 | 17-16-1 | 95 | 1046 | .9092 | 2.82 | 4 |
| Carolina Hurricanes (Hartford Whalers to 1997) | 63 | 35-18-7 | 163 | 1709 | .9046 | 2.65 | 4 |
| Calgary Flames | 41 | 13-18-8 | 109 | 1127 | .9033 | 2.76 | 1 |
| Toronto Maple Leafs | 31 | 17-11-2 | 89 | 912 | .9024 | 2.95 | 3 |
| Buffalo Sabres | 55 | 24-20-7 | 138 | 1407 | .9019 | 2.66 | 5 |
| Detroit Red Wings | 45 | 23-21-1 | 127 | 1277 | .9005 | 2.94 | 1 |
| Florida Panthers | 16 | 7-5-2 | 40 | 366 | .8907 | 2.66 | 0 |
| Los Angeles Kings | 44 | 24-14-5 | 128 | 1138 | .8875 | 2.99 | 2 |
| Colorado Avalanche (Quebec Nordiques to 1995) | 46 | 25-16-4 | 142 | 1262 | .8875 | 3.13 | 3 |
| Philadelphia Flyers | 31 | 7-12-10 | 102 | 839 | .8784 | 3.46 | 0 |
| Career | 1029 | 551-315-131 | 2546 | 28346 | .9102 | 2.54 | 66 |
How to read the record column. Ties and overtime losses are combined, because overtime losses did not exist as a category until 1999-2000 and the source splits do not separate them for the seasons that followed.
How the franchises are counted. Rows use the franchise’s current name, with the club Roy actually faced in brackets where the name has changed. The Winnipeg Jets row is a composite and needs more than a bracket: 14 of those games were against the original Winnipeg Jets, who left for Phoenix in 1996, and three were against the Atlanta Thrashers, who became the current Winnipeg club in 2011. It is two cities in one row, so no claim here rests on it. Utah Mammoth means the Phoenix Coyotes of 1996 to 2003 only. Roy never faced Vegas or Seattle, and he retired before the Atlanta franchise moved.
How many games did Patrick Roy win?
Five hundred and fifty-one, against 315 losses and 131 ties or overtime losses, from 1,029 appearances and 1,003 starts. That is a points percentage of .599 across 19 seasons. Two hundred and eighty-nine of the wins came with Montreal and 262 with Colorado.
Boston gave up more than anyone: 38 wins in 68 meetings, also the largest sample in his table. Carolina, counting the Hartford Whalers years, is next at 35.
Four clubs finished with a winning record against him, and three of them are real samples: Philadelphia went 12-7-10, Calgary 18-13-8 across 41 games, and Washington 12-11-6 across 31. Tampa Bay, at 9-7-1 in 17 games, is the fourth.
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What was Patrick Roy’s career save percentage?
.9102, from 25,800 saves on 28,346 shots. Across his career, he faced 28.2 shots per 60 minutes.
The spread by opponent is wider than the career figure suggests. Against San Jose, in 36 games, he stopped 93.7% of what he faced. Against Philadelphia, in 31, he stopped 87.8%.
Two rows at the top are small samples and should be read as such: Columbus at .9425 is ten games, Minnesota at .9353 is eleven, both against expansion clubs late in his career. San Jose is the best mark he posted against any club he faced 30 times or more, with Dallas at .9217 and Chicago at .9194 behind it.
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What was Patrick Roy’s career GAA?
2.54, from 2,546 goals allowed in 60,214 minutes of ice time, which is just over 1,003 hours of hockey.
The by-opponent range runs from 1.29 against Columbus to 3.46 against Philadelphia. Reading it against the save percentage column is instructive, because the two do not always agree: New Jersey put 31.0 shots per 60 on him, the highest of any opponent, and still only got to 2.82 a game, while Florida managed 24.4 shots per 60 and reached 2.66.
How many shutouts did Patrick Roy have?
Sixty-six in the regular season and 23 more in the playoffs, for 89.
San Jose conceded six of them in 36 games, more than any other club. Buffalo gave up five in 55. Then there are the blanks. Five clubs never lost a shutout to Roy, and the one that stands out is Pittsburgh: 40 games, no shutout, despite a perfectly respectable .9161 against them. Philadelphia is the second, at 31 games, and that one fits everything else about the row. Florida in 16 games, Nashville in 16, and Montreal in 11 are the others.
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Which team gave Patrick Roy the most trouble?
Philadelphia, and it is not close. Thirty-one games, a 7-12-10 record, an .878 save percentage, a 3.46 goals-against average, and no shutouts. Each of those is the worst figure in his table, and they all belong to the same row.
The second-worst row is the one that makes the table worth publishing. Roy’s save percentage against the Colorado franchise is .8875 and his goals-against average 3.13, which rank 29th of 30 on both counts. Forty-five of those 46 games were against the Quebec Nordiques, the club that moved to Denver in 1995 and the club Roy himself joined in December of that year and won two Stanley Cups with. As an opponent, the franchise he would win Cups for was among the hardest he ever faced.
Los Angeles is the third of the three rows below .890, at .8875 across 44 games, and Detroit is the only large sample where his record is nearly even: 23-21-1 in 45 games, with a 2.94 average.
Which team did Patrick Roy beat up?
San Jose, on any measure that survives a sample-size check. Twenty-five wins against six losses and four ties, a .937 save percentage, a 1.59 goals-against average and six shutouts in 36 games. The Sharks entered the league in 1991 and spent most of Roy’s remaining career as a Western Conference opponent, so the sample is real and came against a modern club rather than 1980s expansion fodder.
Columbus is the extreme row: nine wins, no losses, one tie, three shutouts and a 1.29 goals-against average in ten games. The Blue Jackets entered the league in 2000, in Roy’s 17th season, and he never lost to them. Minnesota has a similar story in eleven games: 8-1-2 with three shutouts.
Among the large samples, the two best records in the table belong to Vancouver and Pittsburgh, both at a .700 points percentage: 33-13-4 in 50 games against the Canucks and 25-8-6 in 40 against the Penguins. Pittsburgh is the pairing worth noticing, because that is the same 40 games in which he never managed a shutout. Edmonton is just behind at 33-13-6 in 53 games, and Chicago is the forgotten one, 22-8-5 in 38 at .9194.
How many teams did Patrick Roy play for?
Two.
| Club | Seasons | GP | Record |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montreal Canadiens | 1984-85 to 1995-96 | 551 | 289-175-66 |
| Colorado Avalanche | 1995-96 to 2002-03 | 478 | 262-140-65 |
The 1995-96 season is split between the two teams. He played 22 games for Montreal and 39 for Colorado after the trade in December 1995, which followed the game in which he was left in for nine goals against Detroit.
His NHL debut is a footnote worth keeping: one appearance in 1984-85, 20 minutes of relief, two shots faced, no goals allowed, and a win. It is not recorded as a shutout.
How many seasons did Patrick Roy play?
Nineteen, from 1984-85 to 2002-03, and he appeared in at least 43 games in every one of them after the first. His heaviest workloads were 68 games in 1993-94 with Montreal and the eight straight Colorado seasons of 61 to 65 games.
How many Stanley Cups did Patrick Roy win?
Four. Montreal in 1986 and 1993, Colorado in 1996 and 2001. He won the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP in three of them, in 1986, 1993 and 2001, and the first came in his rookie season.
He also won the Vezina Trophy three times, in 1988-89, 1989-90 and 1991-92, and shared the Jennings Trophy for fewest goals allowed five times. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2006, announced alongside Dick Duff in the player category, and was named to the NHL’s list of the 100 greatest players in 2017.
What was Patrick Roy’s playoff record?
One hundred and fifty-one wins and 94 losses in 247 playoff games, with 584 goals allowed on 7,143 shots, 23 shutouts, a .918 save percentage and a 2.30 goals-against average.
His playoff save percentage is higher than his regular-season mark and his goals-against average lower, which is the statistical form of the thing everyone says about him. The split by club is 114 playoff games for Montreal, 70-44, and 133 for Colorado, 81-50. He missed the playoffs once as a starter, with Montreal in 1994-95.
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Is Patrick Roy still coaching?
No. Roy returned to the NHL as head coach of the New York Islanders in January 2024 and was dismissed on 5 April 2026, with four games left in the season, and replaced by Peter DeBoer.
Before that, he coached the Quebec Remparts in the QMJHL and spent the 2013-14 through 2015-16 seasons as head coach of Colorado, where he won the Jack Adams Award in his first year.
Where does this data come from?
Opponent splits were compiled from Hockey-Reference’s career splits for Patrick Roy.
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