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