A shootout is a lot more skill than one team winning or losing on random mistakes.
Mistakes are a part of the game, making less of them or the one that does or doesnt kill you is what sports and hockey is all about,what determines in a game of actual HOCKEY who really wins and loses............................and thats how games should be decided.
Shootouts aren't.................it's a lazy gimmick and is not PLAYING THE GAME OF HOCKEY.
Huge difference, which anyone should be easily able to see.
In championship games, for the integrity of the sport, the sooner they are gone the better, they are silly.
This is 2 years in a row now a team has won a so called world championship not playing hockey but winning a f***ing shootout, it's got to stop, now.
play the game of hockey to determine the winner,there shouldn't even be any argument about that.