>> I see that both games of the Ice Breaker last night were 2-2 ties,
>> with advancement determined by shootouts.  I thought (as a resut of a
>> HOCKEY-L discussion from a couple of years ago) that the NCAA required
>> 20-minute overtimes be used *whenever* a game required an outcome for
>> advancement purposes.  Has there been a rule change?

> I think that is true for the NCAA to recognize the outcome of the
> game. For NCAA purposes, (according to USCHO), those two games will
> be recorded as tie games.

Yes, that much is (relatively) obvious.  But before last season the
tournament organizers would not even have been allowed to use a
shootout.  I hadn't realized it, but that rule was changed before the
1999-2000 season, as described in
http://www.ncaa.org/news/19990524/active/3611n07.html

                                          John Whelan, Cornell '91
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