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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
Gretzky was - 25? That seems impossible unless it was at end of his career. I understand the argument in tracking shot differential and I don't want to sidetrack the discussion but not all shot attempts are equal. But all goals count the same.
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No they're not all equal... but they all say one thing equally, that your team had the puck. Goals say that to but they only say it relatively few times a year while shots and shot attempts say it frequently enough that you can glean insight from it's measurement.
Hense why +/- stinks. It doesn't say anything meaningful. It says you were on the ice when a goal happened... not whether you meaningfully contributed to that goal just that you were somewhere in the vacinity... whoopty-doo.