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Originally Posted by GordonBlue
If the vast majority of players are happy with the current point system, there is no reason to change.
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Yes there is. It's objectively awful. The opinions of hockey players cannot change that. I don't know what their justification for that view is, but if it's what Huntingwhale said (being "in a playoff race") then they're just deluding themselves. It does not encourage playoff races, it makes it nearly impossible to catch up.
It also encourages defensive play such that the better strategy is to try not to get scored on rather than to score goals... in a league that can't figure out how to increase excitement and scoring. A team that wins 0 games in regulation but goes to overtime 90% of the time will have a better record than a team that wins 60% of its games in regulation but only gets to overtime 10% of the time.
So either they're stupid, delusional, or most likely, they just don't think that much about it and so answered the poll question with "it's fine I guess".