Date sent:              Tue, 28 Mar 2000 22:32:30 +0200
Send reply to:          John Whelan <[log in to unmask]>
From:                   John Whelan <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:                TV Timeouts
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> 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.
 
Interestingly enough, in the IHL, there are two officials' timeouts per
period even in non-televised game, at or after the 8:00 and 12:00 mark
of each period.
 
We seem to get on fine without them, so I wouldn't say there's any need
for it, but it's an interesting way of evening things out a bit
(obviously, TV time-outs amount to more than two per period).
 
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