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Originally Posted by FanIn80
When you consider that winning a hockey game requires you to score more goals than you allow... a measurement of which teams score more goals than they allow should tie up pretty nicely with with which teams are winning more games.
Regardless, the point was that we're seeing teams being able to stack their rosters again. The fact those teams have a much higher goal differential than the rest of the league, and the fact we're seeing higher individal point-totals are just symptoms of that point.
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Winning a hockey game requires scoring one more goal than what is allowed. Any marginal goals above that are superfluous. Hence the 40% increase in empty net goals in nine years as teams realize the stupidity of the past and try to, you know, tie the game. And that number is from March 31; it will only increase from now to the end of the season.