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Originally Posted by Jay Random
The AHL and all three CHL leagues use the same points system. They tally OTL and SOL in separate columns, but give one point for each. They adopted the loser point because the NHL did it.
The NCAA, SHL, DEL, and Swiss National League have three points for a regulation win and no loser point. All games are worth the same number of points.
The ‘loser point’ that people are complaining about is specifically the additional point awarded to the loser in OT/SO of a game for which the winner receives the full number of points for a regulation win. This is the NHL's own bad idea, imitated by its principal North American feeder leagues.
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The SHL, DEL, and Swiss National League all award a point for an overtime or shootout loss. Not sure what you’re talking about. They didn’t all just copy the NHL, they have different point systems.
The fact is that receiving a point for an overtime or shootout loss in hockey is extremely common across the hockey world, even those that differ overall (such as the NHL vs SHL, or DEL).
Take issue with them not awarding the extra point for a regulation win, if that’s what you want to complain about, because that’s the differentiator. If everyone just copies the NHL, why didn’t they copy that? And if they all copied the point for OTL, why did the DEL do it first?
German time travellers, obviously.