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The two conferences have flipped this year. Last year the EC pretty much had the 8 teams decided by Christmas. This year there’s 7 teams within 4 points of each other for the final spot.

In the West there’s really only about 4 teams fighting for the last WC spot.
 
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Rantanen as mentioned now has 8 ENG this season. Kind of a disgusting statline that makes his 29G this season extremely distorted figure. He has something like 30% of his goal total being ENG. Not something I'd be proud about. Thing is Dallas payng 12M longterm for this and so many of his goals just ENG.

ENG should be delineated in a heading under main stats. Not convinced they should even count as regular goal totals. They should be an asterisk subcategory. Not just saying this because I'm an Oilers fan. Goals in context could be said to involve beating a goalie. ENG are not that. EVA also quite a distortion.

Of course the player agents of players like these probably love this. Its a way to dupe the fans too to think you're getting some value on contractual dollar.

A full 14 of Rants pts are ENP lmfao.

Not by surprise Rants leads the league in ENP at 14 followed by Mackinnon at 13 and Hagel at 12. Nobody else in league even at double figures. For Rantanen and Hagel particularly this comprises a significant part of their total pts. But GM's will line up to pay for that...

These are basically mirage goals and pts. This is the difference between rants either having 59 or 73pts. Huge. the guys dinner bell goes off and he salivates with an empty net. Drooling at how many bucks thats gonna get him.

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They should have a sarcastic Empty net champ trophy. Rantanen wins, beating even Ovechkin. Reward is getting paid way more than you're worth.

Lets contrast. Drai has 91pts that are with a goalie in net. Rants has only 59. Yet Rants has 10more ENP than Drai.

But they get paid similar money and somehow Rants is considered a topten producer even though he's far off that without the bubble gum pts.

This is an old article that considers whether ENG or ENP should be counted in scoring totals. In short we don't count shootout goals as goals. The team that wins just gets credited with an extra goal. ENG and ENA are clearly different than scoring plays involving a goalie. They should not be tallied one and the same. Just because this has been the way doesn't mean it makes any sense.

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Pass or Fail: Should empty-net goals count in scoring totals?

Gary Loewen of Sun Media claims he doesn't think all empty-net goals "are for wimps"; just the ones...
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Just a ridiculously good ENG as well. Its a backhand from long range, from boards, that he puts through two Kraken players and he did it in a fraction of a second instant. Not dusting puck off. he knew what he was doing before he got puck.

Caps just rolling. Best team in the East along with Florida.
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I'm not so sure. Watched them play a few games over the last few weeks and they didn't seem all that impressive. Calgary of all teams made them look very pedestrian.
 
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