Even steven, but goals are those who make the measurement: point.
Without goal, there are no point(s).
Of course, aunt, cousin from backbush savannah, blind cat, 3-yo first-skate, and ilks, et al. will intuitively know that on average hockey needs some passing for a player to score a goal, but they all also know that for any points to be counted there must be someone who actually stops the clock by scoring that damn pesky goal for time needed to track down retrospectively what actually happened before that goal scoring shot.
Goal ends the game time, that assist(s), if any, can be counted... uh, sorry points.
Never seen any good argument why Goal=Assist=Point when it is obvious that without a goal there are not going to happen anything on a score board. Nobody ever witnessed any assists to non-existent goal.