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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
Should we put 11 players per team on the ice as well? Cause, you know, it works for "the most popular sport on the planet."
How about taking away the sticks and making the players kick the puck everywhere?
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The point is that soccer has a similar amount of ties, and the game is often played where one team is "holding on for a tie." Obviously, the games are different (but remarkably have a number of similarities), but the point system would make sense. A win should be worth more than two ties, but a tie should still be worth more than a loss. The extra points for a win would be good motivation for teams not to play for ties. In the current system, you are rewarded for having lots of "ties" (OT/SO losses), in the system i suggested, teams would be punished for having lots of ties.
Frankly, I think it's a good system for soccer, but I think due to the fact the goals are slightly easier to come by in hockey, that the system would work even better in hockey. I think that the number of ties would go down, making most games have a winner.