ronduguayshair
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High Risk plays result in higher expected goals for both your team and the other team. If the players are skilled enough, on average it should increase your own team's expected goals more than the other team's - but the other team's will still go up. Looking at the track record of the Penguins powerplay, including #71 and #58 over the last...like, 8 years, it's pretty clear that it has paid off. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Making the safe play every single time is how you run out a team of Rob Scuderis panicking and throwing the puck up the boards aimlessly. I'm not interested in being that team. We basically became that team in 2017 and won an amazing (and incredibly fluky) Cup that way, but that is not replicable.
You're just cherry picking the parts of my post you disagree with. If you read my whole post you'd see that the player's positives outweigh the negatives.
My point is that if people here want to complain about giving up shorties they should realize that they players who are the guilty of this aren't going to change. It is a waste of time to think or argue otherwise.