Spalding is wrong.

She doesnt like Kane or Crawford either.

You want playoff style, 5-on-5, next goal wins?

You do realize these guys play back-to-back nights multiple times throughout the year? Or they play 3 games in 5 nights, like, a lot?

You don't mean this. I mean, you probably do, but then you don't actually realize this is a contact sport. Or something.

5 on 5 for the 1st OT period

4 on 4 for the 2nd OT period

Etc...

The same rules should apply in the regular season & the playoffs.

That has nothing to do with the conversation.

While I don't like them I understand their value and importance, one moreso than the other.

How many games went to OT this year? There is a reason it's only 5 minutes.

If you understand their value & importance, how do you not like them?

Do you know that there are some people that do not "like" Tom Brady?

Maybe.
But also a lot more open ice/room for error/creativity.

You can't have both ways, either more shootouts or more games decided on the ice without completely destroying players/teams.
They are NOT going back to ties, so, like I asked scorehead, do you have a better way?

i say 4 minutes of 4 on 4... then 3 minutes of 3 on 3... and see how many games still go to a shootout....

1/2 hour earlier:

So then do you play 3 on 2 if there is an OT penalty?

Scorehead is the gift that keeps on giving.

This isn't an issue of rules, it's an issue of culture. You can give them all the space for creativity that they want but it won't amount to a pile of shit if coaches won't let players express that creativity. Players have been taught since they were five years old that the worst thing you can do is make a mistake, so never take the risky option when the safe option is there. I don't think that was ever more on display than when Canada won the gold medal by playing the most stifling conservative hockey anyone's seen in years. No player or coach is going to be the one to take the blame for an overtime loss that could have been a shootout win (or even shootout loss, which devalues the other team's win), so it'll just be the same short-shift dump-and-chase crap that made overtime so unwatchable before, just with two fewer skaters on the ice.

I think I'm going to like the 3 on 3.

I think I'm going to like the 3 on 3.

I'm not going on a trip!!!!

Food for thought: have you ever watched sudden-death playoff overtime and said to yourself "man, this is so boring, so constricted, if only there were fewer skaters on the ice!"? No, probably not, because the approach is completely different. It's playing to win versus playing not to lose.