In a perfect world, two points for a win, one for a tie, zero for a loss. Since the league hated the number of ties in the old system, go with 5 minutes of 4 on 4 then five minutes of 3 on 3 in OT. If the old AJHL rules are any indication, you would likely have less than 10% of overtime games go undecided in that scenario.
Given the shootout abomination isn't going away (yet), I like the 2 for a win 1 for a SO win and 0 for a loss solution. Failure should not be rewarded, and if we are going to argue that a shootout win is a success, then a shootout loss is failure.
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