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This sounds like the old "two games total goals to count" that the WCHA and
the NCAA used to do in the playoffs.
Joe
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Griebel" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 5:52 PM
Subject: World Juniors
> Here's a scorer's nightmare.
>
> After 60 minutes of regulation play in today's France-Belarus game,
> Belarus led 3-2, so they apparently played a 10-minute overtime period
> and Belarus still led 3-2, so they had a five-man shoot-out in which
> each team scored once (ironically, Kevorkian kept the French hopes
> alive), so they kept a sudden-death shoot-out going with the following
> results, by round:
>
> 1-1
> 0-0
> 1-1
> 0-0
> 0-0
> 0-0
> 0-0
> 0-1 Belarus
>
> Final score: Belarus 4, France 2 (OT)
>
> Why all that? Presumably because France had taken the first game in the
> best-of-two Relegation Round battle for 9th place by the same 3-2 score
> as Belarus tallied in regulation time today, so they had to keep
> battling till they broke what was a two-game tie in all respects. That
> occurrd with the 8th shoot-out round following the initial five-round
> shoot-out following a scoreless overtime.
>
> The last competition I recall that dragged on that long to end with a
> "winner by two" involved America and Sweden, a couple guys named McEnroe
> and Borg.
>
> boB
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