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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Americans hate ties. Even though it doesn't happen often they absolutely hate it when a football game ends in a tie. The NHL doesn't want to send fans home without a winner being declared. Ties will likely never return and I'm fine with that.
I don't foresee any changes that would make the games longer. If you look at the AAF (basically a trial league for the NFL) it's all about making games quicker as the trend in sports is to speed up the games.
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Want to make the game quicker here are some suggestions.
Start the game when it is scheduled to start. Puck drop at 7:00 not 7:10 after anthems starting ceremonies etc.
Timeouts - less or shorter - not going to happen - less revenue.
Shorter intermissions - could they not be 15- 18 minutes instead of 20.
If you could make the games shorter then when OT does happen an extra 5 minutes in OT would not matter.