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Originally Posted by Saqe
You canīt compare nhl playoffs to a tournament with single game eliminations. The schedule is really tight in the tournament and with a single game elimination system a long over-time game would result in awful disadvantage for a team. Especially in the bronze and gold medal games when they are played within 24hrs of the semi-finals.
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Obviously an entirely different level of competition, but playoff games at the Macs Tournament play full overtimes until a winner is decided. And this is a tournament where the quarter finals and semi finals are played on the same day, followed by the gold and bronze medal games the next day. If you want to avoid it, go out and be better than your opponent in the first 60 minutes.
But I am curious to hear a rationalization of how forcing teams to play until they decide a winner constitutes a greater disadvantage than using a system that is essentially random to pick a winner. At least in the former, the disadvantage is of your own making.