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Originally Posted by Henry Fool
There's Barkov. Different leagues bring different types of players to the NHL, through different paths, at different ages. Finland for example simply hasn't produced scorers in many years.
Stats are of course relevant, but NHLe doesn't add to our understanding of them in any way as far as I can see. You can just look at stats and have enough of an idea without adding extra layers of ambiguous methodology.
Waste of energy as far as I have been able to tell.
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Disagree. NHLe can be very useful. But it has to be used in context.
A couple recent examples with respect to the Flames:
Gaudreau: NHLe 65 (or was it 67 - something like that) actual pts 64
Monahan: NHLe 33, actual points 34
Bennett: NHLe 55 (IIRC), on pace for 40 pts.
But you need large amounts of data in order to build meaningful distributions.