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4 unusual facts about Goals against average


GPG

Goals against average (GAA), also known as Goals per game, sports statistic

Jacqueline Frank DeLuca

As a first year goalie, Frank played in 27 games for 686 minutes and recorded a GAA of 4.65.

Michael Gspurning

Gspurning was signed by the Sounders in December 2011 and has been their primary goalkeeper, having the third-lowest GAA of all MLS goalkeepers in his debut season.

Warren Lipka

Once he earned the starting spot in 1984, he rewarded his team with a .36 GAA.


Ron Tugnutt

During that time, he won the F. W. "Dinty" Moore Trophy for the rookie with the best goals against average, followed by the Dave Pinkney Trophy for Top Team Goaltending, and was named to the OHL All Star team in 1987.


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Briana Scurry

Scurry attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst and completed her four-year collegiate career with 37 shutouts in 65 starts and with a career record of 48-13-4 and a 0.56 goals-against-average.

Roy Edwards

In 1958 at age 21, Edwards backstopped the Whitby Dunlops, Canada's representative, to the World Hockey Championship at Oslo, Norway, posting a perfect 7–0 record with three shutouts and an 0.86 goals-against average.

Sylvain Rodrigue

Rodrigue played professional roller hockey with the Pittsburgh Phantoms during the 1994 RHI season, and with the Ottawa Loggers during the 1995 RHI season where he won the Outstanding Goaltender award for posting an .838 save percentage and a 6.06 goals-against average in seventeen regular-season matches.