Wyshynski on Playoff Overtimes

Greg Wyshynski has a great piece posted at the NHL Fanhouse on the debate over whether or not to alter the NHL’s postseason superregulation play by eliminating continuous full-lenth, 5-on-5 overtimes in favor of some kind of half-baked, mediot-invented format. Obviously, I’m against any change to the system. NHL playoff overtimes as they stand, however stressful they may be, are an institution, in my mind. I wonder what the players, the group those who are trying to change the system are ostensibly protecting, think about the whole debate.

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  1. Paul says:

    "He did indicate, however, that a change in the OT format could be rationalized as a way to protect the players from injury or complete physical collapse during a close series."

    Nonsense. The playoffs have always been about who has the conditioning to stay healthy and who has enough gas in the tank to go the distance.

  2. That is a topic that I have a significant strong passion about. I do think most people today overlook how important this subject matter is. I believe this can be a foundation upon which several things are built and when we do this phase wrong, there are several dire consequences in the future. Hence, we must be careful and think about how precisely we want to approach this topic. I thank the writer for giving a great first try at drawing near it.

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