The NHL Shoot-out: Love it, fix it, or dump it?

[riffjim4069]

We all know how we feel about the OT/Shoot-out issue. Anyway, I just wanted to solicit everyone's opinion...especially those who are less vocal about this issue.

Personally, as a hockey purest I would like to see the NHL dump the shoot-out (SO) and go back to the W-L-T system prior to 2005. However, since I am also a realist (i.e., this isn't going to happen) I would like to see the two short-handed OT periods being proposed by Red Wings management, with only a single point being awarded to a team that loses in a shoot-out...no points for an loss in OT.

 

[Derwin0]

Dump it, just go to a sudden death OT with no goalies.

 

[SabresRule]

Love it- don't get rid of it.

Between you, Jimbo, and the team's GM- what is it with Red Wings against the shootout?

Can't beat him- make em stop it.

 

[riffjim4069]

Love it- don't get rid of it.

Between you, Jimbo, and the team's GM- what is it with Red Wings against the shootout?

Can't beat him- make em stop it.

Sabre, I think you forgot to vote. Anyway, I'm not sure about everyone in HockeyTown but I equate the shoot-out to the MLB permitting a Homerun Derby to decided games tied after 10-innings inning. I believe Metallica wrote a song about this called, "The Thing That Should Never Be." I just don't like it. Perhaps it is a HockeyTown thing.

 

[Steve Mehs]

Shorthanded OT followed by a SO. Straight Win-Loss record, no points for OTL, no points system period, W-L only.

 

[stone phillips420]

it aint broke dont fix it.

 

[riffjim4069]

it aint broke dont fix it.

Exactly....there was nothing broken about the W-L-T system in place for more than 100-years before Gary Buttman decided to mess-it-up.

 

[televisionarchives]

Hate it as well. Would be nice if they got rid of helmets but I know that will never happen

 

[Jimbo]

Regardless, you should NOT get any points for a loss, SO or otherwise.

 

[Ramy]

I hate it. Get rid of it and bring back what they used to have.

 

[SandraC]

Exactly....there was nothing broken about the W-L-T system in place for more than 100-years before Gary Buttman decided to mess-it-up.

I disagree, it was totally broken. The NHL was in the process of sliding off the sports landscape into total irrelevance.


Sandra

 

[hancox]

not the biggest fan of the shootout, but it is VASTLY superior to the dump-and-chase nonsense that preceded it. No incentive to win in the old system - go for the tie, and the safe point.

OT is only great in the playoffs, where there are no ties.

 

[Paul Wozniak]

Never liked it, what's the matter with ties?

 

[BassBlaster]

Get rid of the shootout!

 

[Hemi 6.1]

Like it just fine the way it is.

 

[Hemi 6.1]

Never liked it, what's the matter with ties?

Ties don't determin a winner.

 

[riffjim4069]

Never liked it, what's the matter with ties?

According to this poll...nothing! It's the way the NHL has played hockey for the past one-hundred or so years. Regardless of whether you like or dislike the shoot-out...at a minimum the current system needs to be fixed.

 

[Jimbo]

They had a similar poll in the Detroit News:


Hockey's OT

What overtime format would you like to see for NHL games that are tied at the end of regulation play?

Keep the 5-minute 4-on-4 overtime, followed by a shootout 12.15%

Play a longer 4-on-4 21.25%

Play a longer 5-on-5 8.21%

If no one scores 4-on-4, play 3-on-3 24.62%

Call it a tie and go home 30.93%

I've got a better idea (tell us) 2.84%


From The Detroit News: DETNEWS.COM | Forums | Red Wings Talk

No word as to how many had voted at this time.

 

[riffjim4069]

Death To The Shootout?

Changing the shootout and overtime rules...

Friday Faceoff: Death To The Shootout? - ESPN Video - ESPN

 

[SabresRule]

Hockey, post-lockout, is more fun and the shootout is FUN. It gives us a WINNER.

I don't want to hear any of that stuff about the shootout making hockey not a team game. The team game stuff we had before the lockout was BORING! Nobody wanted to see that stuff. We had it your way for so long, and it bored me to tears.

Also, the people who are anti-shootout are Red Wings fans- coincidence? I think not.

Seems like sour grapes to me because your team lose more shootouts than they win. It's like the kid who gets picked on in the sandbox, cries about it to the teacher, and asks that the sandbox gets replaced by something else to benefit them.