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Originally Posted by ]{lepto]{lown
First off, question why people want shootouts.
They're exciting, and they're very rare. The only time you really get to see them is allstar breaks, and international play.
Now ask yourself this...if you saw a shootout every other night, would you still think they were as exciting?
Use shootouts for overtime is like putting a bandaid on a severed limb
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Well if they used my idea, you'd have 10 minutes of overtime, which would increase the number of games that end in OT.
But yeah, you'd have a lot of shootouts, and its impossible to tell if people would get tired of it because it hasn't happened yet. I can see how it would be exciting almost everytime. I dont see how people could be bored by seeing say Iyla vs Luongo or Iginla vs Joseph, and so on.
And it wouldn't be every other night (unless you watch all the games), but I think the Leafs had something like 10 ties (thereabouts anyway), so that would be 1 out of 8 games ending in a shootout, so it would still be pretty special.