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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
Right, so you’re saying even more goals are prevented than shots that are saved, which means it happens even more often than 90% of the time on average.
Considering all the obstacles/suppression attempts a player has to get through, to the point where you’re saying they can only even score a goal if all of those things fail, that to me points pretty clearly to it being the more difficult thing to do.
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Let's assume all shots are created equal - they're clearly not, but it reduces variables for simplicity of argument. If league average is allowing 30 shots and 10% of them go in, and my team allows 27 shots and 10% of them go in, or allows 30 shots and 9% of them go in, that's every bit as valuable as your team creating 0.3 goals/game above average.
When you can only succeed at goal creation at the expense of the other team failing at goal suppression, they're equally important to winning regardless of how often they happen.