UglyPuckling
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I’m not sure we are talking about the same thing (but maybe we are)? I’m talking about games where we lost and only managed to score one goal. I’m not talking about losing a game by one goal (a Senator loss with a one goal differential).One way to think about it is we have a -17 goal differential and we have -30 goals saved compared to average. Put the two together and we've got a +13 goal differential. Then look at the point totals of teams in that differential neighborhood.
Goaltending covers up a lot of problems. Think about those 30 goals against. That's 30 less conversations in the GDTs about either soft goals or play breakdowns. The game is so fast that you barely notice a broken down play when there's a save and the puck goes off the other way.
What impact do the 30 goals against have on stats? We give 3.47/60. Reduce the goals against by 30, that number changes to exactly 3.00. And if we gave up 3 against per game, we'd be middle of the pact defensively.
Another way to look at it is we give up roughly .5 goals against above average. We've got 12 one goal losses. How would one less goal against in 30 games change the W/L? Quite substantially I presume.
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