Wild get scored on with empty net in overtime and forfeit 'loser' point

[hatterson]

Did they actually lose a point? Standings have them with 80 pts, 1 more than they had before the Vegas game.

They’re at 79.

Likely whenever the game result was entered into the system (ESPN or wherever) it was entered as a normal OTL instead of correctly recording it as an OTW for Vegas and a regulation loss for the Wild.

The way the rule is, the wild don’t have a 1 point penalty in the standings or anything, they just get charged with a regulation loss instead of an OTL.

 

[PositiveCashFlow]

North Stars are going to North Star

 

[andora]

This is a situation where I hope that the coach gave the option to the players if they wanted to do this or not

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

Can the Wild just.... start over? What a nothing franchise. An eternal punchline like the other expansion franchises of that era. At least Nashville has stuff worth bragging about.

 

[Dr Jan Itor]

Can the Wild just.... start over? What a nothing franchise. An eternal punchline like the other expansion franchises of that era. At least Nashville has stuff worth bragging about.

Location: Calgary

Hahahahahaha

 

[VivaLasVegas]

100% want to keep the rule, don't want to see a team that stinks in shootouts just gamble because they get a point either way, but what I WOULD change (and this was brought up last thread) is I would make it so that if you are successful, the other team doesn't get a point. I.e. when Minny beat Nashville after pulling the goalie, Preds got a point, I say let's make it so they get nothing.

No, only one team is electing to gamble and only it should lose its chips if the gamble fails.

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

Location: Calgary

Hahahahahaha

I'm going to say something that will blow your mind.

There are fans of other teams that live in Calgary.

In fact evidence suggests this is true of the other 31 cities that hold NHL franchises.

 

[Dr Jan Itor]

I'm going to say something that will blow your mind.

There are fans of other teams that live in Calgary.

In fact evidence suggests this is true of the other 31 cities that hold NHL franchises.

Meh. Played the odds.

 

[Highmarker]

i'm actually getting sick of people defending this tactic, there is a reason nobody does it and it and they should not have been getting praise for it when it worked a couple weeks back. Take the game to a shootout and roll the dice and getting your extra point. Pulling the goaltender gives you worse odds and puts you at risk of losing the point you already earned.

 

[JianYang]

I don't think I've ever seen this before but I've heard about something similar in the 80s. Back then, you split one point each in the event of a tie, and I don't even think overtime was a thing yet, but it was a game between the Habs and caps where there was a goalie pull in a tie game.

I think it was a situation where the Habs had nothing to lose. It was a late season game and a win would have put them in a higher playoff seed. Maybe someone remembers this and can correct me if I'm wrong.

A 6 on 5 is a different beast than 4 on 3, though.

 

[north21]

i'm actually getting sick of people defending this tactic, there is a reason nobody does it and it and they should not have been getting praise for it when it worked a couple weeks back. Take the game to a shootout and roll the dice and getting your extra point. Pulling the goaltender gives you worse odds and puts you at risk of losing the point you already earned.

It is still hockey vs taking a chance on a skills competition. Realistically they would be better off to pull the goalie in regulation and get 2 points to zero vs giving Vegas an extra point and still going for 2.

 

[GOilers88]

While true, the Wild were so far back that they really needed to gain 2 points on the Knights in the standings, not just 1 point. It's already a long shot, might as well try 6 on 5. If it was another team they were facing that they weren't even chasing, then waiting for 4 v 3 makes more sense.

They couldn't gain 2 points on Vegas once it went to overtime though.

Edit: My mistake. I get what you're saying.

 

[Stealth1616]

This worked the first time but based on a numbers game this isn’t the right thing to do. You probably have roughly 50/50 odds to win a shootout. A 4-3 powerplay is much less then that I’m guessing

 

[Jacob582]

 

[Curufinwe]

i'm actually getting sick of people defending this tactic, there is a reason nobody does it and it and they should not have been getting praise for it when it worked a couple weeks back. Take the game to a shootout and roll the dice and getting your extra point. Pulling the goaltender gives you worse odds and puts you at risk of losing the point you already earned.

And it's a good rule because it prevents terrible SO teams from pulling their goalie regularly in OT.