Quick check list about the nature and facts on three different types of points
- Goal is the objective of the game to win it
- At least one goal is necessity to win a game of hockey
- Goals can be scored without scoring assist(s), assist(s) cannot be scored without the goal
- Goal is necessary requirement for any assists to be scored
- Goal is both team and individual achievement when it comes to the end result of a game, assist(s) is/are only individual achievement
- There are statistically some 1.6-1.7 assists (first and second assists combined) scored per one goal
- More or less random passes' probability to collapse an assist with certainty of 1 is determined by the goal scored, not by those one or two passes preceding the goal ---> The goal scored gives the conventional, set value of one nominal point to those passes, even when neither 1st or 2nd assists' true values are same than goal.
- 1st assist is more valuable and it's also necessary requirement for 2nd assist to be scored
- Scoring system overvalues assists over Goal, particularly 2nd assists (worth about ~0.1-0.2 points when goal is worth of one point)
- Goals are represented always first in point count formula- XG+YA=ZPts
- OT is immediately won by scoring 'sudden death' goal, not by "golden assist"
- SO is based on the idea to reduce whole hockey game to it bare minimum essence: to score one more goal than opponent - by removing all non-essential personnel from the rink
- Multi-goal games are perceived more valuable than multi-point games
- There are special dedicated and privileged type of players whom main task is to try prevent goals to be scored against their team, while every other players try always when they can intercept opponent's passes, thus making probability of them being an assist and/or leading to a scored goal against very small: happens only in relatively rare cases of own goal
- Good goal scorer creates good play makers around them with higher probability than good play maker can create good goal scorers as for one scored goal there are 1.6 - 1.7 play making passes, but for every play making passes (that become assist(s) after the goal) preceding a goal scored there are only about 0.6 goals scored by goal scorer. If 1st and 2nd assists are weighted appropriately using values reflecting more closely their real statistically countable values, goal scorers and goals scored become even more strikingly valuable...
- Rarity order of different three point types is: Goals, 2nd assists, 1st assists -> thus arguments using 'scarcity of occurrence' goes to the woods if applied to assists and goals simultaneously: 2nd assists are never statistically more important and valuable over big samples (they can and they do in this or that particular play in a particular game) than 1st assists, and particularly goal which ultimately assigns all point values to over-valued assists - rare or not (or even non-existent as there are no unsurmountable, categorical need for any assist for a goal to be scored)...
If we compare guys with comparable careers, nearly 50% better goal scoring production cannot be nullified by any arguments that include and consider 2nd assists as worthy as goals. Not even in this thread where we speak about two goal scoring machines who have combined over 1000 regular season goals scored in less then 2000 games played over same 13 seasons they both have been competing as a recognized "rivals".
Topic: For me it's Ovi, tho it's close.