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You think there is no gambling in Soccer?
NA is results driven
Hockey would be the only sport in NA that ends in ties
You think there is no gambling in Soccer?
NA is results driven
Hockey would be the only sport in NA that ends in ties
The issue I, and others here have is not the final result but how that result is achieved. The NHL has no business using a gimmick to decide the winner and loser of games. It IMO cheapens the final result and between that and handing out points to losing teams it makes the league look like a joke.
You talk about going home after 60 or 65 minutes with nothing resolved, worse is watching a tense close exciting game for 60 or 65 minutes then having that excitement come to a screeching halt and replaced with some gimmicky play that is no better than flipping a coin to decide a winner.
I get it many don`t want ties, fine then come up with a better way to resolve those games, and no more giving out points to losing teams. Only in the NHL can teams tie win and lose all in the same game
Baseball as well, technically... although they are exceedingly rare.Football
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Ties are incredibly stupid imo.
A sporting event is a competition. Competition is all about wining or losing - ties are just dumb.
Not sure about ties but the loser point needs to go. Only 7 teams are under .500 right now and four of those are only one win under. What kind of crappy merit badge participation league has almost 75% of the teams over .500? My team, the Canucks, are the worst they've ever been since I started following them in the late 90's and we're still only a few points back of a playoff spot because of shootout wins and OTLs.
NA is results driven
Hockey would be the only sport in NA that ends in ties
The issue I, and others here have is not the final result but how that result is achieved. The NHL has no business using a gimmick to decide the winner and loser of games. It IMO cheapens the final result and between that and handing out points to losing teams it makes the league look like a joke.
You talk about going home after 60 or 65 minutes with nothing resolved, worse is watching a tense close exciting game for 60 or 65 minutes then having that excitement come to a screeching halt and replaced with some gimmicky play that is no better than flipping a coin to decide a winner.
I get it many don`t want ties, fine then come up with a better way to resolve those games, and no more giving out points to losing teams.
I'm 100% down with going back to having ties. 10 minutes of 3 on 3 overtime then it ends in a tie. I think games would be decided in overtime 90% of the time.
A competition is about a competitive atmosphere. If two teams played to a tie after 70 minutes of play, something about that game made it a competitive one. One where the two teams were evenly matched that game.
So why force a winner?
Ties are awful
Ties might have been dull for casual fans of the game but at least, it didn't change the game.
3-on-3 and shootouts change the game. They're exciting because they're relatively novel and casual fans couldn't care less about the (history of the) game so they like seeing gimmicky pond hockey.
Yes, it actually is exciting since there's two less players on both teams but it's not (pure) hockey. At least, it gets a win/loss most of the time and if there's no score as a result, they can screw the goalie with constant breakaways until someone scores.
Having a shootout be a 'tiebreaker' for a playoff position is pathetic in my book. A skills competition to decide who is in or out of the playoffs? That's lame.
Maybe, they should have 5-on-5 with no goalie in either net....bound to have a winner before the OT is up. No need for a shootout then.So is having no winner.
Having a shootout be a 'tiebreaker' for a playoff position is pathetic in my book. A skills competition to decide who is in or out of the playoffs? That's lame.
North America has soccer.. and its catching up to hockey very fast.
3 points for a win
2pts for OT win
0 pt for ot loss
1 point each if no goal in OT
(...)
http://www.nhl.com/stats/team?aggre...62017&filter=gamesPlayed,gte,1&sort=pointPctg
There's the league standings. Half way down, that's average. Problem solved.