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Briedaqueduc · 08-07-2022, 09:13 PM

Written Task: What are your thoughts on the using shootouts to end games in the NHL? Do you like it? Would you change it? If so how? Bring back the tie? Infinite 3-on-3 until someone scores? Do you find them exciting or do you groan when OT ends? I'd love to hear your thoughts! (150+ words)

honestly, I am not a big fan of it. I understand that regular season games do not matter enough to go to 5 overtimes, because players might have a game the day right after and need to rest, but I think shootouts are too random to determine who gets to have the extra point. So I think they should have one overtime if after three periods the score is tied, but if neither team can score in 3 on 3 overtime then give both teams one point and call it a draw. Shootouts are just not fair enough to decide the outcome of a game in my opinion, and most people seem to agree since they are not there in the playoffs. For just one game it might not seem like a lot, but after a couple game lost in overtime you can be losing quite a lot of points unfairly, and playoffs spots can be decided by just a couple points.

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MamaB · 08-07-2022, 09:26 PM

Creative Prompt: 317 words

Being on national television with no holds barred is something I do every day. I work as hard as I possibly can on the ice, and although my stats don't show my tenacity, I hope that the fans are seeing my work ethic out there. I love to give the fans a fun experience, so for this exciting display, I have the cutest thing you will see in mind when I think about the fun and excitement of a breakaway challenge. Imagine some dramatic leading music, the lights are low and spiraling around, blue and white. Then you hear your favorite high school jam come on as loud as the crowd can feasibly tolerate. The crowd is pumped, people are jumping, they are dancing, they are singing, they are pumped to see Mrs. McSaves, when the lights go completely dark, the music hits a drop. The drop escalates and the lights shine bright in the middle of the ice to reveal...

...two of the cutest toddlers you have ever seen. It's Mrs. McSaves' children, a two and three year old, break dancing on the ice. They are having the time of their life out there. The crowd is cheering and making the two children smile and bust more moves. You are impressed that these youngsters are dancing to one of your favorite songs, and it is just a bright and happy moment for you and those you brought with you tonight. The camera crew pans to Sconnie McHits, on a guest appearance, beaming from the sideline. Mrs. McSaves dances with them for a few moments to then light the lamp for the fans. Enjoy folks, this is what it is all about.

r1c3bowl22 · 08-07-2022, 09:30 PM

Hockey Prompt

I actually really like the shootout. I think it's kind of unfortunate that the tied games stat is just dead in terms of goalie and team records. But I'd really hate to pay money to go to a game and see a tie. It would feel very anticlimactic. The shootout is very exciting. I remember back in the day, there were NHL coaches (Pat Quinn) that hated the shootout and said it "wasn't hockey". I disagreed with it then, and I disagree with it now. Honestly, I'm pretty sure he just said it because the Leafs sucked at the shootout. I remember the Sens beating them in the league's first ever shootout. I think it's even less of a point now because teams practice the shootout now. Even in minor hockey, we would practice shootouts a bit. So it's definitely part of the game. I will say, one thing that we lost when ties got removed is the standings implications when teams would tie. Two teams only getting a point each in the standings would be crazy for end of season playoff races.

***Faelax*** · 08-07-2022, 09:34 PM

Prompt 2:

I love almost everything about hockey, but the shootout is not one of them. Shootouts are probably the worst way to decide a game that I could think of. Imagine running a league where some teams make it into the playoffs because they are slightly better at a glorified skills competition, that sounds miserable. Oh wait, that's the NHL. The addition of three on three overtime was great, it is so exciting and different. It's a nice chance to see the best players in the world really open up the ice and put on a dazzling display, and I think we need more of it. I'm honestly not opposed to bringing back ties either, maybe after like ten minutes of three on three. There also needs to be something done about the team with the puck leaving the offensive zone if they don't like their setup or entry. Maybe give them a delay of game penalty for leaving the zone? Idk what the actual answer to that is, but please for the love of god get rid of the shootout.

JayWhy · 08-07-2022, 09:38 PM

The thing with shootouts is that they're ridiculous, as it doesn't truly showcase skill as much as you'd expect it to. There are so many third and fourth liners who are great when they're in a one on one situation. However, when you have a defender in their way, they shut down.

Therefore, I would get rid of the shootout. At least in the traditional way. I think there are ways to make it more exciting and eventful, kind of copying a playbook from football. What if we did forced Oklahoma drills instead?

We could do one-on-one with one defender and one skater, but I think that still doesn't get to what you want. It does make for a more exciting product as you have to stick handle around the defender and still get past the goalie. However, I still want to have more likely forced endings that shootouts give. So instead I want it to be two-on-one. Two skaters coming down on one defender, giving you similar option of the usual shootout one on one, but with an outlet that forces decisions to be made while not being simple. It's also a play you more commonly see in a game, thus being something translatable to the normal game.

For added intrigue, whoever was selected to be the defender cannot be a shooter for the next 3 rounds, and cannot be a defender again until being a shooter. Just to make the decisions harder. Sure, throw Jack Johnson in there, but when he's more likely to give one up than Cale Makar, but then you lose Makar's offensive output.

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***golden_apricot*** · 08-07-2022, 09:42 PM

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plutoniumdom · 08-07-2022, 09:53 PM

Shootouts are a creative and fun way to end a hockey game. There's this old argument that regardless of how you end a tie game, someone will always feel jobbed and it's almost always the people that lost. I think, in the nature of sports fans, we like to bitch and find ways to complain about how our team was blameless and that the other team cheated / the format is bad / the refs are blind or whatever. You can't keep 3v3 forever, which would just result in players getting too exhausted and when players get tired and the exhaustion on their body would result in a lot more injuries in overtime. So you need to agree that there is SOME form of completion which does not involve endless games, and I figure if you looked at leagues like college football, the players would be rather unhappy with how the whole process is run. So I think shoot outs are a great conclusion and should stay.

dogwoodmaple · 08-07-2022, 10:06 PM

It all starts with the costume. I'm dressed as the lovable Toronto mascot, Northie, and an wearing lifted skates. I'm talking like 12" of blade on the ice as I skate down the ice and approach the net. As I enter the attacking zone, fireworks and confetti burst forth from the ceiling and I simultaneously do a 360 spin and remove the head of my costume to reveal myself as the mystery skater. I then lift my stick to the sky which is then lit on fire by some well-placed pyrotechnics and violently wave my flaming hockey stick over my head as the puck skates towards the goal. I rear back for a slapshot, only to pump fake and light the puck itself on fire! With my flaming stick and the flaming puck, I approach the net and fire an absolute laser at the top corner, which burns through the netting and gets lodged in the boards behind the goal. It's only then do I do a double back flip and then lay down on the ice for a snow angel. The heat of my flaming hockey stick then melts the ice and I drop out of site to the amazement of the crowd.

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