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Originally Posted by edslunch
The advanced stat crowd should also stop emphasizing that goals are random events (I read that again in this thread) and therefore aren't a good stat. It my be true in a sense but some players seem to have a lot more random events than others regardless what their other stats say.
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I said that goals are rare, which means random chance is introduced. The guy who scored gets the same plus as the guy who just jumped over the boards. The same is true about shot attempt stats, but they happen much more often which gives us a bigger sample size. Obviously the better players will score more because they are the better players, which I believe to also be true about possession.