Erik Biever wrote:
 
> In the Friday afternoon Icebreaker Cup game in Mariucci Arena, Boston
> College and Ohio State were tied 3-3 at the end of regulation time.  So,
> what happened?  A two-minute intermission, followed by a five minute
> overtime period.  Neither team scored, so there was a 15-minute
> intermission, the ice was resurfaced, then a 20-minute second overtime
> which only lasted 1:17 as Brian Gionta of BC scored the game-winner.
 
> Couldn't someone have bothered to check the rulebook?  My copy of the
> 1999 NCAA Ice Hockey Rules and Interpretations clearly describes what
> should have happened.
 
If it's any consolation, that's not the first time this has happened;
the Cornell-Providence triple-OT semi in the 1996 Syracuse
Invitational also began sudden-death play with a five-minute OT.  At
least nobody puked on the ice last night.  :-/
 
(Oh, and this issue has occurred to me several times at Swiss National
League games, where the clock counts up instead of down; imagine the
confusion if overtime periods had unpredictable lengths.)
 
                                          John Whelan, Cornell '91
                                                  [log in to unmask]
                                     http://www.amurgsval.org/joe/
 
Attention ECAC:   Eight is Enough--Flush the Final Five!
 
HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey;  send information to
[log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.