overpass
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First off, I do have to say that I appreciate the work you've done on Hooley Smith's playoffs; I certainly don't think he was a great playoff player, but I no longer think he was the worst playoff player to come up so far.
To sort of play Devil's advocate however, you are going through his playoff game logs to find assists that would have bee awarded under modern rules; couldn't you also do that during his regular season games? If he (like all players at the time) was being denied a certain number of assists because of the way they were counted, there is no reason to believe he was being denied them at a higher rate in the playoffs than the regular season, right? In other words, it doesn't affect his % decline from the regular season to playoffs.
That wasn't the intention with which I went through his playoff game logs, it was simply something I found while examining his playoff game logs.
Yes, he may have missed out on an equal number of regular season assists. My finding doesn't necessarily disprove the percentage decline charts. But my intention isn't to do that, just to examine his impact in his bigger playoff runs. I think it shows that he was a valuable player in those playoffs when you look beyond the hockey-reference stat chart.
You could also consider that the Senators had 41 assists awarded on 86 goals in the regular season, but only 3 assists awarded on 12 goals in the playoffs.