Harvard @ Cornell, 12/2/2022

[Al DeFlorio]

If you ask me, nothing was wrong with 5 minutes of 5x5 OT followed by a tie

This!

I would guess almost everyone here would agree.

Definitely!
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++1

From Schafer's email this week:

The ECAC plays a three-on-three format in overtime, which I really hate. It's not how to decide a game! We don't practice 3-on-3 a whole lot and we had a couple of guys stay on the ice longer than they should have during overtime. Just a minute in, we turned it over in our offensive zone, which led to a Harvard breakaway by their Montreal top-draft-choice and USA Olympian. Sophomore goaltender Ian Shane made a great save on the initial shot with the puck going up in the rafters. It landed right behind Shane in the crease. A Harvard player found the puck before Shane and scored. It was a disappointing way to lose and anticlimactic for the fans. I would have preferred to see these teams play 5-on-5 for five minutes. It was a tough way to end a great night.

Couldn't have said it better.

[Scersk '97]

From Schafer's email this week:

The ECAC plays a three-on-three format in overtime, which I really hate. It's not how to decide a game! We don't practice 3-on-3 a whole lot and we had a couple of guys stay on the ice longer than they should have during overtime. Just a minute in, we turned it over in our offensive zone, which led to a Harvard breakaway by their Montreal top-draft-choice and USA Olympian. Sophomore goaltender Ian Shane made a great save on the initial shot with the puck going up in the rafters. It landed right behind Shane in the crease. A Harvard player found the puck before Shane and scored. It was a disappointing way to lose and anticlimactic for the fans. I would have preferred to see these teams play 5-on-5 for five minutes. It was a tough way to end a great night.

I am somehow completely unsurprised that this is how Schafer feels.

[Swampy]

If you ask me, nothing was wrong with 5 minutes of 5x5 OT followed by a tie

This!

I would guess almost everyone here would agree.

Definitely!
.

++1

From Schafer's email this week:

The ECAC plays a three-on-three format in overtime, which I really hate. It's not how to decide a game! We don't practice 3-on-3 a whole lot and we had a couple of guys stay on the ice longer than they should have during overtime. Just a minute in, we turned it over in our offensive zone, which led to a Harvard breakaway by their Montreal top-draft-choice and USA Olympian. Sophomore goaltender Ian Shane made a great save on the initial shot with the puck going up in the rafters. It landed right behind Shane in the crease. A Harvard player found the puck before Shane and scored. It was a disappointing way to lose and anticlimactic for the fans. I would have preferred to see these teams play 5-on-5 for five minutes. It was a tough way to end a great night.

+1 for JTW

+1 for MS

[Give My Regards]

If you ask me, nothing was wrong with 5 minutes of 5x5 OT followed by a tie

This!

I would guess almost everyone here would agree.

I do sort of fondly remember ten-minute 5x5 OT followed by a tie (back before cell phones and the web, kids!) but I'll gladly take the five-minute version over what we've got now.

[Trotsky]

If you ask me, nothing was wrong with 5 minutes of 5x5 OT followed by a tie

This!

I would guess almost everyone here would agree.

I do sort of fondly remember ten-minute 5x5 OT followed by a tie (back before cell phones and the web, kids!) but I'll gladly take the five-minute version over what we've got now.

I recall the ten minute overtimes as one minute of intensity, 8 minutes of torpor, 1 minute of intensity.  I really did not notice anything lost when they went to 5 minutes, and the coaches and players said they preferred it for lessening the chance of a tired player messing up and injuring himself or others.

3x3 is a level of garbage rivalled only by shootouts. It is the perfect monument to the 2020s.

By 2040 they'll have a dance off.

[scoop85]

If you ask me, nothing was wrong with 5 minutes of 5x5 OT followed by a tie

This!

I would guess almost everyone here would agree.

I do sort of fondly remember ten-minute 5x5 OT followed by a tie (back before cell phones and the web, kids!) but I'll gladly take the five-minute version over what we've got now.

I recall the ten minute overtimes as one minute of intensity, 8 minutes of torpor, 1 minute of intensity.  I really did not notice anything lost when they went to 5 minutes, and the coaches and players said they preferred it for lessening the chance of a tired player messing up and injuring himself or others.

3x3 is a level of garbage rivalled only by shootouts. It is the perfect monument to the 2020s.

By 2040 they'll have a dance off.

I'm all in with going back to 5 x 5 for 5 minutes, no shootout

[Trotsky]

My preference:

1. 5x5 5 minutes
2. No overtime at all.
3. I would like to see Max in the dance off.

[Dafatone]

My preference:

1. 5x5 5 minutes
2. No overtime at all.
3. I would like to see Max in the dance off.

If they wanna do a shootout for bragging rights at the end of that, sure, why not.

Hell, I won't even complain too much if it counts in the standings. But I don't want it near the pairwise.

[Trotsky]

If they wanna do a shootout for bragging rights at the end of that, sure, why not.

Because it sucks is why not.  Don't decide a team sport event with an individual skill contest.  It's not just inelegant.  It makes as much sense as deciding an MLB game with a homerun hitting contest.

[Dafatone]

If they wanna do a shootout for bragging rights at the end of that, sure, why not.

Because it sucks is why not.  Don't decide a team sport event with an individual skill contest.  It's not just inelegant.  It makes as much sense as deciding an MLB game with a homerun hitting contest.

Is it weird that I like shootouts more than 3x3?

[Al DeFlorio]

If they wanna do a shootout for bragging rights at the end of that, sure, why not.

Because it sucks is why not.  Don't decide a team sport event with an individual skill contest.  It's not just inelegant.  It makes as much sense as deciding an MLB game with a homerun hitting contest.

How about in the World Cup?

[Trotsky]

If they wanna do a shootout for bragging rights at the end of that, sure, why not.

Because it sucks is why not.  Don't decide a team sport event with an individual skill contest.  It's not just inelegant.  It makes as much sense as deciding an MLB game with a homerun hitting contest.

Is it weird that I like shootouts more than 3x3?

Don't ask me.  I hate man on second and the DH but I actually liked 7-inning double headers, and I LOVE the 3 PA reliever rule.

[Trotsky]

If they wanna do a shootout for bragging rights at the end of that, sure, why not.

Because it sucks is why not.  Don't decide a team sport event with an individual skill contest.  It's not just inelegant.  It makes as much sense as deciding an MLB game with a homerun hitting contest.

How about in the World Cup?

Blind auction.

[ugarte]

If they wanna do a shootout for bragging rights at the end of that, sure, why not.

Because it sucks is why not.  Don't decide a team sport event with an individual skill contest.  It's not just inelegant.  It makes as much sense as deciding an MLB game with a homerun hitting contest.

How about in the World Cup?

[Beeeej]

If they wanna do a shootout for bragging rights at the end of that, sure, why not.

Because it sucks is why not.  Don't decide a team sport event with an individual skill contest.  It's not just inelegant.  It makes as much sense as deciding an MLB game with a homerun hitting contest.

How about in the World Cup?

A homerun hitting contest would be a really weird way to decide the World Cup.