Overtime loss=No point?

[CU at Stanford]

[Q]The loss was the Red's second in ECAC play, and though it came in the overtime period, the team will not be awarded a point. The Red thus remains tied for first place with Harvard with one more game in hand.[/Q]

The above came from today's Daily Sun.  A loss is a loss and gets you no point.  Has there been a rule change that I miss?

[Joran Siu 04]

In the NHL, OT Losses = 1 pt for losing team.  Implemented a few years ago.

[DeltaOne81]

Originally started from the AHL... college never adopted it.

[Al DeFlorio]

DeltaOne81 '03 wrote:

Originally started from the AHL... college never adopted it.

And, IMHO, that's just fine.

[DeltaOne81]

Agreed - in the pros I kinda like it - when you play that many games you have a lot of OT losses and it kinda feels like you deserve something for it. In college, with the much lower # of games, and the more pure ideal of a loss is a loss, I want it to stay the way it is.

And, please lord, never adopt the 4-on-4 OT.

[Greg Berge]

In the WHL I like it, mostly because the guys play 3-4 times a week with 25 hour bus trips, and I'm all for lessening the impact of an o.t. loss.

College is fine the way it is.