PainForShane
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- Dec 24, 2019
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Imagine trying to have a conversation with someone who spent their life around the game that scoring 4 points in a blowout 8-1 elimination win contributed nothing towards that teams win. Nothing, zero. All irrelevant points.
They probably would be polite enough to not laugh in your face but your opinion would be quickly dismissed as naive or biased.
Actually it's the opposite. I'm surprised anyone liked your post this is literally the dumbest thing I've ever read in my life.
If a player scored 4 points in a blowout 8-1 win, it would depend when the player scored those points. If he scored his first point when the team was already up 3-1 (which is what happened with McDavid in the gm 4 win), then yes those points contributed very little if anything to the team's win. Because the team would've won whether regardless of whether the player scored 4 points or zero points.
Put another way, the team would've won regardless of this player's contribution. Therefore the impact of the points on the outcome of the game is relatively small. Maybe the first goal mattered (to put the team up 4-1), but you could easily argue the impact was zero or close to it.
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If you actually believe the point of view you clearly articulated in the post I am replying to, I'm not entirely sure how to follow up. Here I was just assuming you were trolling, but it looks like there may be other issues going on
Edit for niceness. First revision was maybe too harsh
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