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8's vs 1's....How the NHL can take a page from Chess to save it's regular seasons

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The NHL takes a good deal of its life from the gate of the regular season. With LA's drubbing of Vancouver, the NHL's regular season is once again exposed as semi-meaningless. Besides entertainment, a leagues regular season is meant to definitely seperate it's top teams from the also rans. Based upon its recent history, it is failing to do so.

The other game/sport that is almost as tie happy as the NHL's regular season is Chess. The proliferation of the draw bores most followers. FIDE (head chess organization) took a novel approach and changed its scoring system. A win used to be worth a point, a draw a half a point, and a loss equals zero. Now under a new system, a win is worth three points, a draw one point, and a loss still zero. There is extra incentive to win. Risk taking is somewhat rewarded in a stale system.

Transfer over to the NHL....its current scoring incarnation rewards too many teams a one point by crawling to overtime and praying for a shootout. Once when teams are valued by their dominance are now rewarded extra points by a skill event of a few lone players. Obviously, the point system is not seperating the teams according to strength. In the NBA, an 8 seed rarely wins a series...in the NHL its becoming a common occurance.

Changing the point system to 3 points for a regulation win....2 points for OT win or shootout win and one point for shootout loss only...it has the ability to seperate the better teams from the also rans based on the 60 minutes of play...not by a skill shot competition at the end of the game.

Something has to be changed otherwise the NHL regular season will be more devalued than it is...as the gate goes so does the league.
 
I had a long, drunken, semi-coherent discussion about this with a prominent Forumville member. After much skepticism on my part, I ended up agreeing with the point system you propose. 3 for a win, 2 for an OT/SO win, 1 for an OT/SO loss.

We need this.

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The NHL takes a good deal of its life from the gate of the regular season. With LA's drubbing of Vancouver, the NHL's regular season is once again exposed as semi-meaningless. Besides entertainment, a leagues regular season is meant to definitely seperate it's top teams from the also rans. Based upon its recent history, it is failing to do so.

The other game/sport that is almost as tie happy as the NHL's regular season is Chess. The proliferation of the draw bores most followers. FIDE (head chess organization) took a novel approach and changed its scoring system. A win used to be worth a point, a draw a half a point, and a loss equals zero. Now under a new system, a win is worth three points, a draw one point, and a loss still zero. There is extra incentive to win. Risk taking is somewhat rewarded in a stale system.

Transfer over to the NHL....its current scoring incarnation rewards too many teams a one point by crawling to overtime and praying for a shootout. Once when teams are valued by their dominance are now rewarded extra points by a skill event of a few lone players. Obviously, the point system is not seperating the teams according to strength. In the NBA, an 8 seed rarely wins a series...in the NHL its becoming a common occurance.

Changing the point system to 3 points for a regulation win....2 points for OT win or shootout win and one point for shootout loss only...it has the ability to seperate the better teams from the also rans based on the 60 minutes of play...not by a skill shot competition at the end of the game.

Something has to be changed otherwise the NHL regular season will be more devalued than it is...as the gate goes so does the league.
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This has been proposed years ago by TSN's Pierre LeBrun and got rejected by the NHL BOG meetings in Nevada. I think this was during the lockout in 2005.

Something should be done with the current point system. I wish the NHL went 5 min OT 4 on 4 and then 5 min 3 on 3. Fok this shootout shit. What a gimick!!!
 
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This has been proposed years ago by TSN's Pierre LeBrun and got rejected by the NHL BOG meetings in Nevada. I think this was during the lockout in 2005.

Something should be done with the current point system. I wish the NHL went 5 min OT 4 on 4 and then 5 min 3 on 3. Fok this shootout shit. What a gimick!!!
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shootouts are terrible but 3 on 3 would also be a gimmick, albeit closer to real hockey
 
shootots are fine. The solution you speak of has nothing to do with the problem you raise. I agree some games should not be worth 2 points, while others are worth 3. However, unless you start giving more points for losses than wins the Kings will not have a higher seed than Vancouver.

The reality is hockey teams in the nhl are very even. A little luck goes a long way. Allowing hitting, grabbing, hooking, goalie pads, lets the less skillful teams compete successfully. That's where your problem is.
 
I'd like to see that as well Mathieu. The game is much faster adn bigger than 10-20 years ago. I think it's time for the NHL to really take a serious look at this. I'm sure many teams will be against it due to loss of seating/revenue at the arenas.
 
There's unskilled players in the league due to Bettman's failed expansion in the 90's. The league is basically watered down and many kids are rushed into the league when they should be forced to play at least one year in the minors.
 
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