Re: Regarding players\' point scoring in Hockey
Goals should be weighted more than assists - but not always. Assists are more common than goals ldo.
It should just make intuitive sense to anyone who watches or follows hockey. Especially not important are most defenseman's assists, which are often standard passes either on a power play or up ice.
Some league used to only award a single assist on a goal - this seems to make more sense to me. Gretzky was a master of the secondary assist at the end of his career, but he wasn't a +EV player the last year of his career as a result of his goal/assist discrepancy.
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