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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
I am not going to start the debate again about the value of those stats, but I will say this:
As you look at longer and longer periods, the stats become less and less meaningful and the actual counting stats become more and more indisputable. It is kind of ridiculous to say "over the last 5 years, his metrics say that he should have been on the ice for more goals than he was". Yeah but he wasn't!
How long are we going to keep having the discussion that Hanifin's metrics are better than his actual numbers? At some point, they have to catch up, otherwise the metric is meaningless.
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Two things though.
1) That's two years ... so sample size isn't small at all.
2) They are actual stats ... the top one is actual goals when he's on the ice.
There's nothing debatable or fancy about adding up all the even strength goals when on the ice and dividing it by ice time.
If that number's high he's either the luckiest guy in the league (sample size lessens that probability), or likely a contributing factor to creating five on five offence.