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Originally Posted by Bingo
Getting to the crux of it now.
I don't think a player that has too many shots right in front of their own net can conclusively be called weak defensively.
There are circumstances.
But for whatever reason more bad things happened to him than others when he was on the ice (others would be connected to those events as well) which meant defensively it likely wasn't a great game.
And to suggest you can have more bad things happen in multiple games and still be a victim of a bad stat doesn't wash for me.
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Larger sample sizes (and this stat needs
many games to achieve that) will compensate for randomness for sure. But they won't compensate for everything - some players are better passers (more HD chances for, for all players on the ice with them). Some players are better at creating time and space for themselves (which will help their line-mates' stats). Some players like to shoot from outside home plate. The point being, even with larger sample sizes, the stat is severely limited, and (I would argue) flawed. But this stat is rarely used with large sample sizes, it is almost exclusively used on single game discussions.