Leafs and the Shootout

[bustaheims]

I'm on board with this. I really hate the shootout. Empty wins. Empty losses.

I prefer to think of them as ties and glorified ties.

 

[Highlander]

Bring back de Kab's.

 

[Heroic Shrimp]

I refuse to accept the shootout.

Prime example why is the fact that we were happy about the Leafs losing a game and actually improving their playoff positioning. It's asinine. Bring back the tie.

I'm on board with this. I really hate the shootout. Empty wins. Empty losses.

If a tie is like kissing your sister, a shootout is like being forced to have sex with her.

 

[Crucialness Key]

I refuse to accept the shootout.

Prime example why is the fact that we were happy about the Leafs losing a game and actually improving their playoff positioning. It's asinine. Bring back the tie.

I'm on board with this. I really hate the shootout. Empty wins. Empty losses.

Oh my friends, my friends, don't ask me
What your shootout goals were for...
Empty wins and empty losses
That the Leafs shall win no more...

 

[nutman]

I just hate shootouts, always have, and still would even if we won 50 of them in a row. I would rather drop players until we went to 2on 2 for five mins, then if the score was still a tie then there it would stay.

 

[Kin]

It's pretty remarkable that the NHL somehow managed to recognize the fact that they did have something of an issue(ties were no fun), came up with a solution that, strictly speaking, addressed the issue and yet somehow satisfied nobody.

I've heard people say that they enjoy the shoot-out because they find it exciting as a process but I've never heard anyone say that they like the shootout because it resolves games.

 

[LuncheonMeat]

Personally, I HATE the shootout, regardless of what the Leafs have done.

What I'd like to see and would really be exciting, would be a 4-on-4 in overtime with NO GOALIES.

Empty net is always exciting, imagine two empty nets. Sounds a little crazy maybe, but no worse than these stupid shoot-outs.

How about a second overtime with ONLY the goalies?  They start in their nets, put the puck at centre ice, first goal wins 

Can they throw their sticks?

 

[Leaflifer]

I wonder what the initial pressure was to have shootout tiebreakers.  Was the league trying to secure a deal with Espn?

 

[moon111]

I refuse to accept the shootout.

Prime example why is the fact that we were happy about the Leafs losing a game and actually improving their playoff positioning. It's asinine. Bring back the tie.

I'm on board with this. I really hate the shootout. Empty wins. Empty losses.

If a tie is like kissing your sister, a shootout is like being forced to have sex with her.

I'm not too sure comparing hockey to incest is right.  After all, we're talking about how the Leafs can't score.