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Originally Posted by SebC
You're looking at this wrong. The goalie's impact on GA is far more attributable to him than the defenseman's impact on GF... someone else would take his minutes, an assist is only part of a goal. The Flames, without Dougie Hamilton, would be unlikely to score 23% less goals with other players replacing his minutes. You're looking at the goalie's difference from replacement, but not applying that logic for the defenseman.
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Yeah, it's complicated but another thing Dougie Hamilton (or any good top pairing Dman for that matter) does is help prevent goals, not just contribute offense.
I didn't account for that either.
My point is, a high end skater (especially Dmen and centers) are much harder to replace and make more of a difference to their team winning than a high end goaltender, because downgrading that high end goaltender to just an average goaltender (which is easy to do) doesn't subtract from the team as much as taking out a high end skater would.