The only purpose for a shootout is to eliminate tie games without taking all night to do it. It's just something you have to do in order to win a game if you didn't win in regulation or OT.
And the loser point is a loser point. Who gets two points? The team that wins. Who gets one point? The team that loses.
I'd maybe consider doing away with ROW as a tiebreaker, thereby making shootout wins the same value as reg/OT wins, but that's it. If you lose a game, it's because you didn't win the game. How you lost doesn't matter.
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