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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
No, I just think your attack is over the top and unjustified.
I criticize hockey stats as much as anyone on here. They have small sample sizes, and there are far too many external variants influencing the actions that are attempting to be measured, in order to draw strong conclusions from them. Despite this, many fans, who don't understand how stats work, do in fact draw strong conclusions from them, to the point of often mistaking them for hard facts.
So I get what you were trying to say. However, you simply dismissed these outright, as arbitrary, without knowing anything about the process or the people that put them together. That is just as fallacious, probably more so, as what you were trying to attack.
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If these guys had said the same about an Oilers goalie, or a Canucks goalie, or a Kings goalie or a Ducks goalie, we'd all agree it's a dumb thing to say and that they don't sound like a very credible bunch.
It's just a really dumb thing to say.