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Originally Posted by butterfly
1. Goal differential is increasingly useless as a measure of team effectiveness with the number of ENGs skyrocketing as teams realize it doesn’t matter whether you lose by 1 or 10.
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Oh ok. So what you're saying is that NHL teams don't have to score more goals than they allow in order to be effective.
Do you have evidence of this? Can you show me multiple seasons where teams at the top of the standings didn't have a positive goal differential? What about Stanley Cup winners... what's the percentage of champions who had a negative goal differential in the playoffs vs a positive one?
I mean, you might be able to show a slight uptick in ENGs, depending on your selected range, but calling goal differential 'useless' is a stretch, unless of course you can prove that it's useless.