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I’m not saying they don’t use stats to compare players. I’m saying they don’t use NHLe.
Anyhow. Now trade rumours, apologies for ranting.
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I am also fairly certain NHL scouts don't depend on NHLe, but that does not make it a useless dataset, and especially moreso as more and more data is collected. Maybe a better way to think about it is as a quantifier for some of the finer things that scouts will see on the ice: NHLe is an aggregate number that is based on the past behaviour of NHL players prior to their arrival in the NHL. Because it factors in EVERY player, the number it produces tends to be fairly reliable insofar as it will predict
on average how productive a player may be in the NHL, in his rookie season. That's all.
Of course, it is far from everything, but as more and more datapoints are collected, it should continue to be more and more accurate.