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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
This is utter nonsense as an argument, though. Points come from wins, which come from outscoring your opponent. It's essentially tautological to say "goal differential determines playoff seeding"; you might as well go one step further and say 16/16 playoff teams are predicted by their win/loss record. It doesn't "predict" playoff seeding, it describes playoff seeding, because goals for percentage cannot be relied upon to stay the same over time.
Put another way, if asked, "if I want my team to make the playoffs, what should they be good at", the person who understands analytics will say, "it's no guarantee, but the best thing would be for them to be good at possessing the puck". Your response appears to be, "make them good at scoring more goals than the other guys". That's completely unhelpful.
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Building a team that has forwards that can score a lot of goals, a defence that can stop the other team from scoring and implementing a system that works for the players you have is exactly how you become good at hockey. Attempting to shoot pucks in the direction of the opponents net more than the opposition may be a symptom of that, but as has been proven this season it may not.