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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
You can't increase the time to ten minutes if you want televised games, the networks have 2 breaks built into the end of a hockey game they can drop if it goes to overtime, that's pretty much what those breaks are for but it gives the league around 6 minutes at most to play with and the preference is to have it done within one break only.
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I think with the time between the OT and shootout and how long the shootout takes to complete (lets not forget that some shootouts go into 5+ shooters), tacking that time onto OT would have almost all games resolved within 10 minutes of the start of regular OT. Too many odd man rushes happen for a goal not to happen in that time frame.