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Quote: Originally Posted by Madman55

So teams like Washington and Pittsburgh should play for the shootout and not try and win in 3-on-3? What? http://www.tsn.ca/playing-for-the-sh...teams-1.369900

This is the **** that led us to 3v3's and SO's in the first place. Conservative coaching masked as "personnel strategy."

Shut up. You play defensive because you can still get away with mugging players regularly. Hopefully the open ice of 3v3 doesn't allow the jamming and clogging that so many teams rely on.

What they should do is scrap the SO and make OT continuous in a 3v3 or 4v4 fashion (ties aren't coming back, sorry). Let's see how many coaches sit back defensively, waiting for the other team to screw up, when their players know they've got a game tomorrow and want to get off the ice now.

5 minutes probably still isn't long enough for OT. Should've made it 10. Long enough to expect a result but not too long that the game is being dragged on. The NHL has the shortest game times in North American major pro sports already and I doubt another 5 minutes will change that.

And that ****ing loser point. It's called a LOSER point. Come on... get rid of it already! Rewarding teams for losing. Ha ha, the NHL summed up.