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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
50% of the time seems super successful to me TBH...
If they score there it might change the outcome. They would have had a 1-0 lead heading into the second and would have had the momentum as it would have been a late period goal and would have still had time left on the 4 minute PP.
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None of which would have prevented Vegas from scoring goals in the second and third periods.
‘Momentum’ is a term much abused by media people who don't understand the game but understand how to make a narrative that will excite the audience. One of the earliest exercises in analytics, done back in the early 2000s, showed pretty conclusively that it doesn't exist to the extent that it can affect the outcome of games. Score effects actually work the opposite way – the team trailing in a game is more likely to score the next goal.