Would you like to see the shootout dropped and ties brought back?

[SeanMoneyHands]

Simple question. I would. I know it will never happen as the shootouts gets fans out of their seats. But bring back ties.

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[AKL]

Ties are awful, shootouts are slightly better.

 

[x Tame Impala]

Ties are awful, shootouts are slightly better.

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[Rockomax]

I miss the days of the 20 minutes overtime period

 

[Uncle Scrooge]

Personally, no. I don't mind ties in itself, but makes tracking things for betting a lot more simple to have the players sent home as winners or losers.

 

[Three On Zero]

5 minutes of 4 on 4, followed by 10 minutes of 3 on 3.

 

[Bleeker]

In a perfect world, I would extend the overtime to 10 minutes.
This way, almost no games would go to a shootout.

But i'd rather have ties back than shootouts. I hate them with a passion.

 

[norrisnick]

3 point system
3pts regulation win
2pts ot win
1pt ot/shootout loss

 

[RapidKnight]

Salvage the shootout. Get rid of the stupid rounds and make it less gimmicky. Format it like a tennis tiebreaker. 1 attempt followed by 2 attempts repeated until a team wins by 2 goals.

 

[tarheelhockey]

I miss the days of the 20 minutes overtime period

Do you mean the playoffs?

 

[High five Tom]

Hmmmmmm

 

[Play]

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WRONG.

 

[ItWasJustified]

3 point system
3pts regulation win
2pts ot win
1pt ot/shootout loss

This. And the player who scores the shootout winner should get a goal added to the statistics. It doesn't make any sense having no player with the GWG on a bunch of games.

 

[TheTotalPackage]

It'll never happen, or at least under Bettman's watch, but give me a tie over a shootout any day of the week.

I don't need to see a winner in every game. I'd rather a hard-fought 65-minute game end up in a tie with each walking away with a point than having one of the two teams gain an extra point in the standings off a penalty shot competition.

Even more is that I have always thought being to able win that extra point after just two shooters was the worst mistake. A great game ending just like that. The least they could have done was make it five shooters, requiring at least three rounds to win the game. That'd give it more credence.

 

[MikeyMike01]

3 point system
3pts regulation win
2pts ot win
1pt ot/shootout loss

RW 3 pts
OTW 2 pts
SOW 1 pt
L 0 pts

Enough with the loser points

 

[bobholly39]

A tie in a competitive sport always felt incredibly stupid to me.

The whole point is to win

 

[NyQuil]

5 minutes of 4 on 4, followed by 10 minutes of 3 on 3.

Followed by 15 minutes of 2 on 2.

Followed by 20 minutes of 1 on 1.

Followed by 30 minutes of just the goalies.

 

[DickSmehlik]

I feel the people who voted to bring back a tie have never sat through many 1-1 or 0-0 games.

 

[Axe Man]

Collecting shootout wins creates the illusion that a team is actually better than what it really is.

 

[Rockomax]

Do you mean the playoffs?

No, before the lockout which brought the shootout, the OT period was a 20 minutes 5 on 5 period. If no goal was scored, the game was a tie. That's what I miss.

 

[tarheelhockey]

No, before the lockout which brought the shootout, the OT period was a 20 minutes 5 on 5 period. If no goal was scored, the game was a tie. That's what I miss.

It was always 5 minutes. The only time it’s ever been 20 was in the playoffs, where there are no ties.

 

[Three On Zero]

Followed by 15 minutes of 2 on 2.

Followed by 20 minutes of 1 on 1.

Followed by 30 minutes of just the goalies.

All better options then a shoot out

 

[Golden_Jet]

I miss the days of the 20 minutes overtime period

Only time that’s happened is in sudden death playoffs, never in regular season history.

No, hate ties.

To keep point system similar to past years would like this.

2 points regulation win
1.5 points OT/ SO win
0.5 points OT/ SO loss.

 

[Lshap]

I feel the people who voted to bring back a tie have never sat through many 1-1 or 0-0 games.

That's still the case. Plenty of games still end in a low-scoring tie. The only difference is we now get an extra staged competition designed to give one team the W, along with an added point.

 

[Hockey Outsider]

If the NHL doesn't want ties, every game should be worth the same number of points. Since the standings are used to determine which teams qualify for the playoffs (and how they're seeded), the points should be awarded based on how closely the win resembles playoff hockey:

- Regulation win: 5 points
- Overtime win: 4 points
- Shootout win: 3 points
- Shootout loss: 2 points
- Overtime loss: 1 point
- Regulation loss: 0 points

Every game is now worth 5 points, and the closer the outcome is to playoff hockey, the more points are awarded.

It's true that the standings would no longer be directly comparable to previous years, but you could always look at points percentage. (Or you can cut the points in half - so 2.5 points for a regulation win, 2 points for an OT win, etc).