Canadiens1958
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Consensus
Assuming you can get anything approaching consensus about what matters.
Fighting seems to matter in some perceptions of a hockey outcome. It has often been attributed to momentum shifts.
See the link below to a thread from 2009. It is demonstrated that the oft reported and commented on fight between Gordie Howe and Lou Fontinato simply did not matter in terms of short term or seasonal results.
http://hfboards.mandatory.com/showpost.php?p=19473130&postcount=1
Yet some people for the sake of narrative, view it in mythical terms, that it somehow *matters* in NHL history.
My point is that the key is understanding attribution, since the*matters* is too superficial at times and proper attribution just moves these instances of superficial *matters* out of the way.
You're focused on attribution, but what you need to be focused on is "does it matter to begin with?".
If it doesn't matter, then attribution is irrelevant.
Assuming you can get anything approaching consensus about what matters.
Fighting seems to matter in some perceptions of a hockey outcome. It has often been attributed to momentum shifts.
See the link below to a thread from 2009. It is demonstrated that the oft reported and commented on fight between Gordie Howe and Lou Fontinato simply did not matter in terms of short term or seasonal results.
http://hfboards.mandatory.com/showpost.php?p=19473130&postcount=1
Yet some people for the sake of narrative, view it in mythical terms, that it somehow *matters* in NHL history.
My point is that the key is understanding attribution, since the*matters* is too superficial at times and proper attribution just moves these instances of superficial *matters* out of the way.