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Originally Posted by Sakari
My opinion's really simple. Take the shootout out of the game. 4v4, then 3v3. Not just because I'm a Flames fan. The shootout is not a test of a teams skill, but more of a single players skill. A team like the Edmonton Oilers would be extremely deadly in the shootout but, in regulation and OT, they blow.
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Taking away the loser points and making shootout wins worth 1 point could be a simple enough solution for that though. Therefore Oilers could win all the games in shootout they want, but they're not making much gain since there 'wins' wouldn't be worth that much; and if they lose, they gain nothing, making the push to keep the game tied till the very end not much of an incentive for them or a recipe for success to stay in the playoff hunt.
I used to be very opposed to 3 point games since I don't like the imbalance it creates between every matchup due to not every game awarding 3 or even 2 points, but over the past year I've grown to warm up to more that I'm equally in favour of a 3 point system along with a W-L system. They're practically the same thing if you eliminate the loser points. In the end, you still gotta win the game to gain something, and it address the criticism of winning in the shootout or 4 on 4 is not the same as winning in regulation.