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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
We’re talking about them being equally difficult, not whether their value is equal. But since you’re conceding they aren’t the same difficulty, we can move onto the value thing.
Your numbers don’t point to any sort of equal value, and just by thinking about it logically, it’s an easy argument to dismiss. Every game, there are probably hundreds of events that prevent a potential goal. Saves are the last resort, but everything from blocks, hits, poke checks, interceptions, takeaways, etc all suppress potential goals. If every act of goal suppression is equal value to scoring a goal, that suggests Vincent Desharnais should make more than McDavid… which… lol. Good luck with that.
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They are equal in aggregate. If a player does 17 things that prevent 0.01 goals each, it has the same value as a player who does 1 thing to create 0.17 goals.
It is goal creation, not simply scoring - when McDavid stickhandles all over the Kings zone on the PP and fires one in off Hyman's skate, almost anyone could be standing out there "scoring" the goal. Standing there is a very small part of what led to its creation.