3 on 3 OT is awful.

[Quinning]

Win the faceoff, go into the attacking zone, throw it around for about 45 seconds, take it back out of the zone and all the way down into your end, change two skaters without letting the other team change, make a play towards the net while doing everything you can to maintain possession. Rinse and repeat.

Since when did we go from end-to-end action to this bullshit cat and mouse game? Every team in the league is doing it now. I don't care if it works, it's boring as shit. I would rather just see them go right to a shootout if this is how it's going to be. Ideally they go back to 4 on 4.

The other thing they could do is implement some type of shot clock system where you have 30 seconds to get a shot on net after receiving possession. As it stands, if you win the opening faceoff, your team has a 70-80% chance of scoring without the other team ever touching the puck.

As others have said, maybe an over and back rule is the answer.

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[Idiot Stick]

empty the benches for 5 min

 

[Dr Pepper]

Implementing a shot clock sounds like an awful idea, so let's hope it doesn't come to that.

I'd rather see a similar NBA rule that prevents teams from bringing the puck back into their own end.

 

[SteelCityCannon]

70-80% seems dramatic. I love 3 on 3, but I think teams aren't playing it how the league intended.

I would be in favor of a backcourt style call. Voluntarily go back through the red line and you treat it as icing.

 

[TheBeastCoast]

Just don’t let teams carry the puck back over the redline in OT and it’s fixed.

 

[BertCorbeau]

The 3-2-1 point system would mitigate the impact of 3 on 3 in the standings.

It’s gimmicky pond hockey but it’s far better than a shootout and more exciting than ending a game in a tie.

Just needs less meaning in the standings

 

[Gaylord Q Tinkledink]

Like others, make it so if you're going back over the red line to regroup, or to hopefully get a better view of things is the play blown dead and a warning, next time penalty for delay of game..

3 On 3 really does suck. It's becoming the shootout is more entertaining than 3 on 3

 

[BattleEquivalent8265]

While I agree that it has gotten pretty boring and sometimes infuriating, watching Quinn Hughes single-handedly dominate the entire OT versus Buffalo was a real thing of beauty.

 

[JohanFranzenstein]

3 On 3 really does suck. It's becoming the shootout is more entertaining than 3 on 3

It was all part of the long game by the commish to get fans to enjoy the shootout.

Gary you son of a bitch, you've done it again!

 

[Winger98]

5v5 for ten minutes. Then just end in a tie.

 

[Mike C]

Win the faceoff, go into the attacking zone, throw it around for about 45 seconds, take it back out of the zone and all the way down into your end, change two skaters without letting the other team change, make a play towards the net while doing everything you can to maintain possession. Rinse and repeat.

Since when did we go from end-to-end action to this bullshit cat and mouse game? Every team in the league is doing it now. I don't care if it works, it's boring as shit. I would rather just see them go right to a shootout if this is how it's going to be. Ideally they go back to 4 on 4.

The other thing they could do is implement some type of shot clock system where you have 30 seconds to get a shot on net after receiving possession. As it stands, if you win the opening faceoff, your team has a 70-80% chance of scoring without the other team ever touching the puck.

Or.....they could play a legit 5x5 OT like the old days or failing that.... God forbid just end the game in a tie. Each team gets a point and down the road we go.

Standings and playoff spots shouldn't be determined by gimmicks

 

[Gregor Samsa]

It sucked as soon as it became about puck possession and safety

 

[Luigi Lemieux]

5v5 for ten minutes. Then just end in a tie.

Was thinking 4 on 4 for 10 minutes. Much higher chance of scoring and 4 on 4 is still real hockey. And yea I have no problem with ties, bring them back.

 

[Machinehead]

There's nothing you could implement that coaches aren't going to kill after one season. The sport is just kind of boring like that.

 

[ijuka]

The worst part about 3on3 is the aspect where after you have a scoring chance but fail, the other team probably gets a 2-on-1 the other way. This makes you favor passive play, where you milk the puck for ages and work to get the perfect chance to take a shot; otherwise shooting the puck is just too much of a risk.

This is the opposite of what they promised when 4on4 initially became 3on3.

 

[izlez]

Is the VHL (or whatever league it was in Russia) still doing the over-and-back rule this year? How is it working out?

4 v 4 for 10 minutes sounds better. But more importantly, fix the point system so that playing for overtime is disincentivized,

 

[DingerMcSlapshot]

Like Buff said, "pond hockey".

 

[BigBadBruins7708]

There's nothing you could implement that coaches aren't going to kill after one season. The sport is just kind of boring like that.

bingo. no matter what they do, coaches will find a way to coach to risk (aka excitement) out of it

 

[Lshap]

There's nothing you could implement that coaches aren't going to kill after one season. The sport is just kind of boring like that.

That's hockey. We can tweak the offence and add gimmicks like OT, but the sport always defaults to what it essentially is: Defensive and risk-averse.

 

[BLNY]

Win the faceoff, go into the attacking zone, throw it around for about 45 seconds, take it back out of the zone and all the way down into your end, change two skaters without letting the other team change, make a play towards the net while doing everything you can to maintain possession. Rinse and repeat.

Since when did we go from end-to-end action to this bullshit cat and mouse game? Every team in the league is doing it now. I don't care if it works, it's boring as shit. I would rather just see them go right to a shootout if this is how it's going to be. Ideally they go back to 4 on 4.

The other thing they could do is implement some type of shot clock system where you have 30 seconds to get a shot on net after receiving possession. As it stands, if you win the opening faceoff, your team has a 70-80% chance of scoring without the other team ever touching the puck.

Co-opting basketball's back-over-half rule would certainly solve the issue of keep away through line changes, but it doesn't solve the 3-on-3 gimmick.

I'm still a proponent of 5-on-5 OT. You want a winner? Tell the players the shootout is gone and you play until there's a winner. You'll see teams go for it. That said, I've never had a problem with a game ending in a tie. Not every game deserves a winner, and I'd have no issue going back to 60 minute game, five minute OT, and some ties where the OT point is actually for tying and not losing. Two points for a win, no points for a loss, one point for a tie.

 

[JianYang]

Co-opting basketball's back-over-half rule would certainly solve the issue of keep away through line changes, but it doesn't solve the 3-on-3 gimmick.

I'm still a proponent of 5-on-5 OT. You want a winner? Tell the players the shootout is gone and you play until there's a winner. You'll see teams go for it. That said, I've never had a problem with a game ending in a tie. Not every game deserves a winner, and I'd have no issue going back to 60 minute game, five minute OT, and some ties where the OT point is actually for tying and not losing. Two points for a win, no points for a loss, one point for a tie.

Trying to break tie games has been an issue that the league has been trying to solve for decades, and they keep getting shown that there is no great solution for it.

But I'm with you. I never had an issue with tie games to begin with, but I think they were targeting new American fans with these changes who are not really conditioned to ties in their sporting landscape. In Canada, it was a solution to something nobody had a problem with.

 

[Hierso]

3-on-3 is not hockey.

Play for five-ten minutes and if no one can score then no one deserves that extra point. Golden goal rules are also a pain in the ass, the longest game ever went for 157 minutes and ended in the eight period.

 

[Shark Finn]

The 3-2-1 point system would mitigate the impact of 3 on 3 in the standings.

It’s gimmicky pond hockey but it’s far better than a shootout and more exciting than ending a game in a tie.

Just needs less meaning in the standings

This times a thousand. Will never happen, though.

 

[PavelBure10]

I agree, it sure does suck. Go back to another 5 minute period, and try to break the tie. I really didn't mind the tie game, it's better than watching this gimmick.

 

[DrMartinVanNostrand]

There's a reason I consider any and all OT/SO games to be ties and move on from there. It's not legitimate hockey.