I would have thought that they would have put a limit on how much Overtime is played.
Can’t be good for the players and I surely the TV companies would want a better indication on when a game will likely finish.
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In the regular season, if overtime is done and is still tied, there are shoot-outs. Should be the same for post-season.
Shootouts are garbage. If they brought them into the playoffs, that would turn the NHL into a joke.
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Yeah shootouts are crap. At some point I think they will likely get rid of them in the regular season and just go back to ties. In no way do they prove who the better team is.
No no no no no! Shootouts are a gimmick that we’re created to send fans home satisfied in the regular season so it doesn’t end in a tie. Under no circumstances do I want playoff games decided on a gimmick.
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Tv stations love OT. we’re not talking original programming here when it’s 1am. What CBC was airing last night when the OT aired was reruns of Mr. D.
Might as well flip a coin. Shootouts have no place in playoffs. Imagine it’s game 7 in the final and the winner is decided this way, it’d be dumb as hell and unrewarding for the players.
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You’ve opened a can of worms here. Overtime is the ultimate do or die, the “it could end at any point” is the exact selling point.
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The Florida Panthers eliminated three of the top four regular season teams on the way to the Stanley Cup Final (Boston - 1, Carolina - 2, Toronto 4). They did it in 16 games. They’ve won 11 of their last 12 games.
When they face Vegas in the Stanley Cup Finals, they will play the team that had the fifth-best regular season record.
And they were down 3-1 in the first round.
What a run.
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100% agree. I think unfortunately people always look at things through a glass half empty type of lense, and for whatever reason the narrative from some became “Look how Boston choked” when in reality the narrative was “Florida is playing excellent hockey”. In the end the Bruins are going to have likely lost to the eventual cup champions in game 7 OT. And this is not coming from a Bruins fan, I hate Boston.
This run reminds me of the LA Kings back in 2012.
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