Nobody is talking about "various micro stats", and while the objective in hockey is to score goals, there's a lot more that factors into how many goals go in for or against in any particular game than just which group of skaters performed better or tried harder. Unfortunately, some people stroll in here after every loss, demand their casual eye test eye test to be infallible and impervious to normal human biases, and claim the team didn't try, didn't care, played like garbage, etc., regardless of how the team actually performed.