Something of a counterpoint to undeserved assists. There are also occasions (frequent) where one guy does all or most of the work,but gets only an assist (we had a couple cases the two weeks where he didn't even get an assist, yet did essentially all the work is acquiring the puck. I don't know that I'm happy with assists either, but there are some worse statistics (winning goal comes to mind). Someone also raised the issue of the cheap goals on power plays as opposed to even strength goals. Stats are nice but I believe it is impossible to capture all the elements of any situation (try building a computer model); I continue to be amazed at the ability of the human mind to receive and process info and make correct judgements in a split second.