...or NHL games being decided by a........shootout.
Do you think the disparity in the amount of scoring and consequently how long a game could go on for has anything to do with such things?
FR rules have changed. Engagement of the brain is allowed before 10 am on Saturdays now.
That's a fairly recent rules change for the NHL and they probably "stole" the idea, bad as it is, from soccer.
Nothing wrong with a tied hockey result for a regular season game, especially if five minutes of sudden death overtime with four skaters on a side doesn't produce a tie-breaking goal. That's where things should have stayed but they didn't leave good enough alone.
Thankfully, they don't have shootouts in the NHL playoffs, but rather play until someone scores in sudden death overtime, which is the way it always has been and the way it should always be.