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Erik Biever wrote:
> 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.
If it's any consolation, that's not the first time this has happened;
the Cornell-Providence triple-OT semi in the 1996 Syracuse
Invitational also began sudden-death play with a five-minute OT. At
least nobody puked on the ice last night. :-/
(Oh, and this issue has occurred to me several times at Swiss National
League games, where the clock counts up instead of down; imagine the
confusion if overtime periods had unpredictable lengths.)
John Whelan, Cornell '91
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