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Originally Posted by DeluxeMoustache
(Chuckle). Ok.
I’m fine trying to work with these guys and admit I have a bias ... it is “informed” by science and logic, I suppose.
My bias is basically having a firm belief that, statistics be damned, there are some shots a goalie (any goalie) can’t physically react to in time to adjust their position to stop. The numbers check out.
When a fast enough shot is taken from sufficiently close, and it is directed at open net available around the outline goalie, it is going in. Physics dictate that it is so.
Something seems very hard for some people to understand. Either that there are such shots, or that there were more such shots one game specifically than is statistically usual, and is mystifying as to why.
Maybe we have a poster called ScienceCritic or StatisticsCritic somewhere that can accept it without resorting to silly accusations of bias
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I agree that some goals are not stoppable. But, breakaway goals are never unstoppable. They may be unstoppable given how the goalie has chosen to position himself, but they are never unstoppable generally. If they were, the formula would be known and guys would score every time.
Positioning is a huge part of it. And I didn't like Rittich's positioning at all on goals #2 and #4. Goal #3 was a breakaway so you can never call it a bad goal, but he got burned pretty bad on that one too. Not like the shot was bar down or anything.
He just doesn't look like a guy who can carry this team through 4 grueling playoff rounds right now. Still time to get hot though.