well the reason that good shots is important is that you decided to use shots on nets to make a point that was invalid.

As for why is good shots important, I will use two arguments

1) let's say for some reason I am at the blue line and I am taking shots on an open net, being talent less at hockey, of my 10 shots 4 hit the post and don't go in while the other 6 just go wide. How would my 10 (or 4 since the other 6 might not be counted) prove that air was a great goalie?

2) there is a reason I don't like the shoot outs in reg season after OT. Have you ever watched any games with shoot outs? what happens? even though the goalie might have stopped the vast majority of the shots during the game (to use your stats above 3/134 or 2%) when the shoot out starts the stats are much different. Same with a brake away, right, the chances of scoring is much higher.

Plus all of this misses one key point, no matter how great a goalie and how many saves unless the rest of the team scores some points the team can’t win.