There was a shootout in last year's Quinnipiac Cup and I think it may have
been the first shootout after the rule described below was implemented.
-jp
--- John T Whelan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >> 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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> http://www.amurgsval.org/joe/
>
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