Posted on 02/23/2026 8:53:31 AM PST by V_TWIN
Jon Cooper is blaming the Olympic overtime rules for Canada’s loss to the United States.
Unlike the 4 Nations Face-Off and the Stanley Cup Playoffs, where the overtime period is five-on-five, the Olympics use a three-on-three format. This is designed to make overtime periods quicker and reduce shootouts. It’s also used in the NHL regular season.
“You take four players off the ice, now hockey’s not hockey anymore,” Cooper said, via The Hockey News. ”There’s a reason overtime and shootouts are in play — it’s all TV-driven to end games, so it’s not a long time. There’s a reason why it’s not in the Stanley Cup final or playoffs.”
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I agree, but by the same logic I hate shootouts. The fact he hates 3o3 but is okay with shootouts makes him a hypocrite.
Never mind that three players on the ice in OT for Canada were a three time league MVP, the league MVP from 2024 and a three-time NHL first team all-star.
They probably did complain about it. But nobody over here cares. The fact is everybody except the TV networks (and probably the Olympic organizers looking at their schedules and what’s supposed to be happening next in the stadium) likes the 3 on 3 rules. But such it is.
“Canada coach Jon Cooper blasts ‘TV-driven’ rules after heartbreaking Olympics loss to US”
There’s virtue in losing gracefully, that Jon hasn’t mastered yet.
It was funny to watch their faces when they got the silver ribbons.
Loser Canucks! Shut your whiney pie-holes and take your silver. Good grief.
Print newspapers. After they are delivered by stage mail.
That is because the Canadian Men’s hockey team choked.
They were heavily favored to win the gold medal.
If you looked at their team on paper they should have beat every other team by huge goal margins.
Yet, they did not. They barely beat other teams to get to the Gold/Silver round.
This is like when the Pats lost to the Giants in the Superbowl. When they had go undefeated and won eighteen games.
Newspapers and radio didn’t interfere with the basic structure of the games. Television did. It took a long while. Initially, television showed the games as they had always been played. But then the tv bucks took over, the rules started morphing, and one by one the sports have been disfigured, some of them to the point of being grotesque caricatures of what they used to be.
Totally agree. I MUCH prefer 5v5, 20-minute OT periods with sudden death. Keep playing regular hockey until there is a winner.
“Only thing worse than a poor winner is a poor loser.”
Poor loser: Cooper.
Poor winner: Gu
He’s right. The OT rules are terrible. They should have played full sides until
there was a winner. More air time for a high interest event and a couple more
commercials.
NHL should ditch the shootouts. Play an 8 minute OT. Full sides. If no winner,
it’s a tie game and no 3rd point awarded.
Half the Canadians are prisoners of the government just like we were under
Magic and No Brainer. Some might be our countrymen, someday.
Our people trash talk like street people and it’s not needed.
“They barely beat other teams to get to the Gold/Silver round”
They had to beat a team in O/T to advance.....which makes the canadian coaches comments even more hypocritical.
Makes me wish I had watched some of the Globalist Games.
“Poor winner: Gu”
True dat.....unfortunately we’ll probably see her again in 4 years.
And yes, it's simply done to get the game over so they can close the arena on time and TV stations can go back to regular programs.
“Jon Cooper is blaming the Olympic overtime rules for Canada’s loss...”
There is a remedy for that. Win the freaking game in regular time (in my Sam Kinison voice)!
The soviets lost in 1980 with more class than the Canadian team is showing this year.
Canada had a 5 in 3 advantage for a minute and a half and couldn’t score.
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