Craig Powers wrote:
>> 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.
 
Actually, at least in Manitoba, the time outs come after 13:00 and 9:00. If
the game is televised there are four time outs, the additional ones come
after 17:00 and 5:00. As I recall, a time out can't be taken in the middle
of a power play.
 
The TV time outs really stand out in hockey, because hockey doesn't have a
lot of long delays normally. Teams are only allowed one thirty-second time
out per game (normally taken late in the third, if at all). Adding six or
tweleve 90-second time outs changes the flow of the game, IMHO.
 
IIRC (and I can check if anyone is really interested), the NHL used to use
several shorter TV time outs per period. I think that may be a better way
to go.
 
John
 
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