Do Shootout Wins Feel Satisfying to You?

[Avs2022]

I hate to say it, I prefer ties to a shootout.

 

[miscs75]

No and the shootout sucks as a way to decide a game.

even if your team is in said shootout? Yeah I call bullshit there.

Would you really want to see 90% of the Isles roster in the shootout? I don’t and I’m an Islanders fan.

 

[Rodgerwilco]

Shootout wins don’t feel that satisfying, but losing a shootout is annoying. Strange contradiction.

 

[Skidooboy]

A W is a W and a shootout W is better than a shootout L.

I would argue the 100% opposite to it "not being satisfying".
the pressure and excitement and fear grows in most cases as the OT and shootouts progress.

do you leave a Shootout loss feeling satisfied or like your team won?
with OT losses and shootout losses it feels like the extra "loser" point is meaningless..... the team lost. you watched them lose, they skated off quietly while the winner cheered and high fived.. the loser point is for the standings not the fans. the fans want a win. you sure don't celebrate the single point unless it clinches something...otherwise/ you walk out feeling like your team lost and the point is just an "at least we got a point"

 

[MikeyMike01]

anything over a god damn tie. Love 3 on 3 too.


even if your team is in said shootout? Yeah I call bullshit there.

Obviously, yes. I never watch regular season NHL games without my team in it, too boring.

 

[The Panther]

Hate to go there, but I will. OT losses are worth 0% of an OT win. You get 1pt for OT win and 0pts for OT loss. It also comes into play with tiebreakers.

I'm not sure what you're saying here. Clearly, OT losses are worth 50% of an OT win in the current system. Right now, any kind of "win" (regulation, OT, or shoot-out) is worth 2 points and an OT loss is worth 1 point.

In any case, we disagree because you don't have a problem with the points-system and I do.

I will never be able to accept some games being worth 3 points in the standings and others being worth 2.

 

[Ratsreign]

I find watching shootouts are just painful at this point.

10 Minute OT - if no one scores end the game in a tie.

I could live with this. And the game is worth two total points

 

[myperbixhurts]

No

 

[Divine]

No, go back to the old system.

Regulation time followed by 5 mins of 5v5 OT. No loser point. 2 points for the winning team, no points for the losing team, 1 point each for ties. It also disincentivizes teams playing for OT as losing in OT is no better than losing in regulation. If players don't want to play extra, just a standard 60 minute game that ends is a tie will serve the same purpose.

The problem's arise when you start OT with a different format than you play during regulation and the entire playoffs, then you have to start awarding points for making it to the gimmicks. Just get rid of the gimmicks.

 

[Quinntessential]

Shootouts and 3 on 3 overtime are legitimate and entertaining forms of the hockey when my team wins them but when my team loses, they’re just a gimmick.

 

[hangman005]

HELL YEA

You just keep getting worse and worse.

 

[Coffey]

You just keep getting worse and worse.

 

[Ezekial]

Is a runny shit satisfying? No, but at the end of the day it's out of you so it's a good thing.

 

[Yukon Joe]

So last night in rec hockey, my team is down 4-2 in the third period (and we had been down 4-1). Last two minutes we pull our goalie - and holy shit we score two in the last 30 seconds to tie it up!

Overtime solves nothing, so we go to a shootout.

We lose in the shootout.

I'd still much rather have the shootout than leave it at a tie.

If you've seen a shootout in person at an NHL rink - everyone is on their feet, nobody is leaving early. It may be a gimmick, but it's an exciting gimmick.

 

[Sniper99]

Love the whiny "its a gimmick" yet these same guys probably are probably on the edge of their couch when their star player scores on a 2 on 1 in OT after the play was going back and forth.