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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
Just because a goalie played well and had saves above expected, doesn't mean you can simply subtract that from the score and get a different result. Games flow BASED on the score. Hell, refs REF based on the score.
You can't simply say he saved 11 points in the standings. It just doesn't work that way.
Not to mention, these stats are FAR from infallible. Shot metrics in hockey do not consider time and space, so two (statistically) identical shots from the exact same place on the ice, are not identical because one shooter may have had more time than the other. Applying these stats with the assumption that they are perfectly accurate, is folly. Drawing the conclusions that you are trying to draw from them, is beyond folly. It is flat out garbage, as far as statistics go.
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As already mentioned, I'm not just basing this on stats alone, I'm basing it on a combination of stats and watching the games.
Is there some speculation involved here? Of course there is. But any attempt to answer this question is going to involve some speculation on which saves the other goalie would have made (Vladar/Cooley or whoever). Doesn't mean that it's "garbage" just because you say it is.