My views on ties are this: Sometimes, for some games, teams are evenly matched on that particular night. They’re either equally good or equally bad as the opposing team, and ending those games in a shootout, simply to have “a winner”, feels unsatisfying.
I think they should extend the 3-on-3 OT to 10 minutes, then declare a tie if no one’s scored in that time. That’s 70 minutes of evenly played hockey. If no one has an edge by that point, tip your hat and move on to the next game.
“Well, teams will play for the tie then!” So incentivize them not to. Game goes to OT, both teams get 1 point in the standings. 10 minutes of OT, 1 extra point up for grabs. Someone scores, they get the second point. No one scores and it ends in a tie? No one gets the extra point.
We’ll see if teams continue to do “over and back” when there’s not the safety net of a shootout to earn that second point. I imagine the last few minutes of OT with THAT point format would be lots of fun to watch.