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Old 12-30-2017, 12:32 PM   #4531
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Originally Posted by Weitz View Post
It’s interesting but I don’t see any meaningful way to speed up hockey games. The Players wanted 18 minute intermissions, I doubt they would change, I doubt broadcasters would allow less TV timeouts without it being some sort of PPV model which would kill the viewership imo.
Even just dropping the puck at the scheduled start time, and making a hard rule that intermissions are 15 min, would cut game times by 15-20 min on average.

That would be a great start.
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