Jeremy and Joe discuss the new rule changes the NHL is testing at the Four Nations Faceoff.
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00:00So anyway, the Four Nations face-off begins tomorrow.
00:03I'm so excited.
00:04Canada, Finland, Sweden, USA, best-on-best NHL tournament.
00:09The rules of this tournament, I found myself wondering this yesterday, what's going to
00:14be different about this tournament?
00:16It's all NHL rules except for three things are different.
00:20Which can lead us to three conversations.
00:21Would we want these three changes for the NHL?
00:26And should they have done more?
00:27So the first rule that's different.
00:29There are no shootouts.
00:30Okay.
00:31Good.
00:32I'm into that.
00:33I don't think there are shootouts.
00:34Well, you know what?
00:35I take that back.
00:36I guess there are shootouts.
00:37Go ahead.
00:38Overtime is ten minutes.
00:39Ten minutes.
00:40So it would be rarer to get a shootout.
00:42So it's three-on-three overtime for ten minutes?
00:44For ten minutes.
00:45Okay.
00:46So shootouts will be very rare.
00:47Yeah.
00:48Because the odds of getting one in a six-game tournament or whatever this is going to end
00:51up being is very low.
00:52Even though three-on-three overtime, in my opinion, is very broken in the NHL, it has
00:57been ruined for the most part by these teams that just play possession and hold the puck
01:01for five minutes.
01:02Whatever.
01:03Yeah.
01:04Now a team can hold it for ten minutes.
01:05Overtime's ten minutes.
01:07Rule change number two.
01:09The 3-2-1 point system is in place.
01:11Okay.
01:12Good.
01:13How about it?
01:14Love it.
01:15The 3-2-1 point system.
01:16I mean, at least it's confirmation the NHL knows it exists.
01:20It is funny.
01:22Is it a trial run?
01:23Is that what's happening?
01:25I mean, it's an NHL event, so I guess you might think it's a trial run, but you only
01:30have four teams playing.
01:32The standings can only be so different, whatever.
01:35I don't know what they'll learn from it in this trial run, but 3-2-1 point system.
01:39And then rule change number three is that the top two teams advance to a one-game final,
01:43which will use the overtime format of the NHL playoffs, which is just sudden death.
01:47You just play until someone scores.
01:48So the final game is the top two teams in the points on the 3-2-1 point system, and
01:53they play one game, and if it goes to overtime, it's sudden death.
01:57So really the only thing that they changed from the NHL format to the Four Nations face-off
02:02is the way we do points in endgames.
02:06Should anything else have been different?