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[Al DeFlorio]

Bill Fenwick wrote:

OT was changed to 5 minutes for the 89-90 season.

Anyone remember why it was changed?  With the shorter duration of games since the new face-off rule, I'd like to see it changed back to 10 minutes.



Post Edited (06-02-03 20:16)

[jtwcornell91]

Al DeFlorio wrote:
With the shorter duration of games since the new face-off rule, I'd like to see it changed back to 10 minutes.

It'd be nice to see something good come out of the fast faceoff rule. ;-)

[Give My Regards]

Al DeFlorio wrote:

Anyone remember why it was changed?  With the shorter duration of games since the new face-off rule, I'd like to see it changed back to 10 minutes.

As I recall, it was a move to shorten the game, and it wasn't just the shorter OT.  When OT was ten minutes, the ice would be resurfaced before it started.  With the extra session only five minutes, the ice is not resurfaced, so the break between regulation and OT is a lot shorter.

[jtwcornell91]

Bill Fenwick wrote:
As I recall, it was a move to shorten the game, and it wasn't just the shorter OT.  When OT was ten minutes, the ice would be resurfaced before it started.  With the extra session only five minutes, the ice is not resurfaced, so the break between regulation and OT is a lot shorter.

But these days international hockey is played with a 10-minute OT which I'm pretty sure has no resurfacing before it.

[Al DeFlorio]

John T. Whelan '91 wrote:
But these days international hockey is played with a 10-minute OT which I'm pretty sure has no resurfacing before it.

That's OK as long as they don't play at the Providence Civic Center...::rolleyes::

[Jeff Hopkins \'82]

Let me tell you, the players were none to thrilled with the surface in Albany, either.

JH

[cquinn]

[Q]Let me tell you, the players were none to thrilled with the surface in Albany, either.[/Q]

Don't knock it too much.  There was that lovely moment when the bad ice caused the puck to tip up on edge and roll wide of the empty net.

[Jeff Hopkins \'82]

Point well taken.  :-P

[Josh '99]

Al DeFlorio wrote:

John T. Whelan '91 wrote:
But these days international hockey is played with a 10-minute OT which I'm pretty sure has no resurfacing before it.

That's OK as long as they don't play at the Providence Civic Center...::rolleyes::

Somehow I doubt there's much international hockey being played at the Providence Civic Center.