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Originally Posted by nfotiu
I think it is the best, and most entertaining option. It reduces the impact of Shootouts because far less games would go to shoot outs. It makes .500 mean something, and makes standing much readable.
Going back to a tie and no OTL would be my second choice.
3-2-1-0 would be far better than what we have now.
It is so obvious that teams would play for a tie, when they give such a strong incentive to. I read an article once that said the only reason it hasn't changed is because all the options are better than what we currently have, so no one can agree on a replacement.
It's always been my fantasy to get rich and buy a hockey team and use a 6 fat guys in goal strategy until the Shoutout and runaway with the president's cup to demonstrate how awful the system is and how it has ruined 3rd periods of regular season games.
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Sorry to ruin your fantasy but someone had the same thought so they made a rule against it already
"It's quite common for NHL teams to change goaltenders during a game, but at least once a team got away with employing two goaltenders at the same time. At the turn of the century, a coach of a team from Kenora (then known as Rat Portage) unveiled a unique strategy against the powerful Ottawa club in a Stanley Cup match. He benched one of his forwards and inserted a second goalie in his team's net. There was no rule against it at the time, and the coach thought two goalies would make scoring almost impossible. He was wrong. The goalies stumbled into each other and left enough openings for the Ottawa boys to score and the strategy was quickly abandoned.
A rule was soon adopted preventing repetition of the ploy"
https://www.hhof.com/htmlFaceOff/humour4.shtml
