MindzEye
Wayward Ditch Pig
If a goal was scored, but it wasn't xPected, should it even count?
Discuss.
I know that you're joking here, but the serious answer to this is that if you take a shot from a location where similarly located shots score at a 1% clip, and it goes in...well, it went in, congratulations. But that doesn't mean that you should be shooting from there very often and is a bad strategy to use going forward.
Hockey has more beautiful random bullshit than any other major sport. Which is what happens when you have so few scoring events in a game, but so many potential scoring events, all it takes is a weirdo 1%er to change the game entirely. No other sport has that combination of random fuckery. You either have low scoring events, low scoring attempts (soccer, baseball), high scoring-high attempts (basketball) which all kind of evens out a lot of the randomness.