Here is an aspect of the shootout I haven't seen mentioned. How will the shootout effect team conditioning. I mean all season long HE players will have played 60 minutes only, while teams in the other three leaguges will several overtime games. Not ever having played competive hockey I don't know if the extra five minutes make a difference when the players are in such good physical shape to begin with. Since overtimes in the playoffs go on until somebody wins, I'm not if the lack of overtime experience will make a difference. Anybody have some comments? David