Bill Fenwick writes:
>Carol writes:
>>Many people actually left after the first OT (5:00)
>
>Whoa, there -- I haven't got a rule book handy, but aren't tournament games in
>which a winner has to be determined supposed to use 20-minute overtimes if
>necessary?
 
Bingo.  Rule 6-44 from this year's rule book:
 
"Where advancement in a bracket or the determination of a tournament
champion is necessary, any series in a format (e.g. total-goals
series, single game, minigame series) that results in a tie will be
broken by 20-minute, sudden-death overtime periods.  The teams shall
not change ends (except as indicated in Rule 6-41-b).  Third-place
games may follow the overtime procedures as described in Rule 6-43."
(i.e., one 5-min OT, game is a tie if no scoring)
 
This isn't the first time I've heard of some confusion dealing with
the length of overtimes in a tournament game.  You would think that
the folks in charge would have this stuff down by now.  Some really
weird things have happened, like playing a 5-min OT followed by 2
10-min OTs (Auld Lang Syne a couple of years ago).
 
Since I have been maintaining the listing of DivI's longest games
(available from [log in to unmask] with the command GET LONG
GAMES), and the cutoff for the list is games that are longer than 80:00
(formerly 3 overtimes or more), the rule change means I now have to
watch for games that are 2 OTs or more.  So I was wondering about the
length of Minn-LSSU...until Carol said that the first OT was only 5
minutes long.  Not even close to making the list.
 
(btw...anyone involved with the CCHA may want to send them that
list...I think the one they published in the 1992-93 CCHA Guide was not
complete.  Mine is a hybrid of theirs with the one in the 1989-90
College Hockey Record Manual, plus some additional games I came upon -
mainly in recent years, I believe.  I haven't seen this year's CCHA
Guide.)
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Mike Machnik                                          [log in to unmask]
Cabletron Systems, Inc.                                  *HMM* 11/13/93
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