Quoth Joe LaCour:
 
> One thing I've thought about is allowing a TV timeout (1 - 2 min) at the 1st
> whistle after the 9 minute mark of the OT.  You don't lose the continuity of
> the OT, but the players do get a bit of a minibreak.
 
I'd rather see them go the other way and have no TV timeouts during
the game at all (given that non-televised games only allow each team
one one-minute timeout per *game*), but unfortunately the inviolacy of
the game didn't have a chance to get built up and trump advertising
concerns in hockey the way it did in soccer.
 
                                          John Whelan, Cornell '91
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