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Originally Posted by Gaudreauvertime
Why is it that teams pay more for players who score more? Seems rather arbitrary to not pay the most valuable players as much . . .
Seems like a premium is put on points because its very hard to score in the NHL, and scoring wins you hockey games....
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Because points are easily quantifiable and legitimately arbitrary. It is extremey difficult to quantify the value of individual players relative to his team-mates on a team-to-team basis, and the reason for that is because individual contributions to winning are subtle combinations of hundreds of factors in each and every game played.
Agents can readily make the case that X is a larger number than Y, and while a team may believe that Player X's contribution to winning is not as significant as Player Y's, it is difficult to counter because the numbers just simply do not exist to show it.
To put it another way: if the highest scoring players were always the most valuable, then it would stand to reason that the highest scoring team would win the Stanley Cup every year. That does not happen.