During the NHL lockout that cancelled what would have been the 2004-2005 season, the entire rules of the game were re-evaluated and changed to make hockey an overall better sport. The biggest changes regarded adding in the offsides rule and the shootout, but plenty of other revisions were also made.
In the five seasons since then, the NHL has been an utterly different game than it used to be. However, as discussed and tested in the NHL's Development and Orientation camp last week, the league is beginning to see some more changes, and also some reversions to the pre-lockout rules, might be becoming necessary.
An investigation into the factual reasons behind their suggested modifications took us into a world of calculations in determining an array of trends and streaks through the last five NHL seasons.
The first thing determined was that no matter how many shootouts per season the NHL expected when they established it, the number of them per year is increasing. In the first season after the lockout, 2005-2006, there were 165 games decided in shootouts while there were 116 settled in the five-minute overtime.
Last season, ...
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