In a tournament you have to have a winner to go to the next round...no ties>
 They probably would have gone to a shoot-out if it had remained tied.   The
greatest college hockey game I ever saw was Maine beating the scUM in triple
OT in the final four.
 
Bob Svec
 
Go Bucks!!!!
 
 
 
At 12:33 PM 10/10/98 -0500, Erik Biever wrote:
>Apparently not.
>
>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.  Here are the relevant parts of Rule 6, Playing
>Rules:
>
>-----
>
>TIED GAMES
>SECTION 47
>
>a. If the score is tied at the end of three regulation 20-minute
>periods, the following shall take place (Exception: 6-48):
>
>(1) There shall be a two-minute intermission.
>(2) The teams shall not change ends.
>(3) A five-minute period shall be played.
>(4) The team that scores first wins and the game is ended. If a goal is
>not scored in the five-minute period, the game shall be declared a tie.
>
>-----
>
>TOURNAMENT COMPETITION
>SECTION 48
>
>a.  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 shall be broken by
>20-minute, sudden-death overtime periods.   The ice shall be resurfaced
>upon completion of regulation play.  The teams shall not change ends
>(except as indicated in Rule 6-44-b).  Third-place games may follow the
>overtime procedures as described in Rule 6-47.
>
>----
>
>This seems abundantly clear; the Icebreaker Cup is an elimination
>tournament.  Instead, the WCHA officials chose to misapply a combination
>of Rules 6-47 and 6-48.
>
>I don't know who made the call.  The referee was John Seidel.  I don't
>know if WCHA Supervisor of Officials, Greg Shepherd, was there.  Someone
>should have managed to get this right.
>
>
>-- Erik
>
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