{"id":38717,"date":"2018-12-07T00:53:02","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T05:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=38717"},"modified":"2020-12-26T16:37:39","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T21:37:39","slug":"iihf-overtime-rules-tweaked-for-2019-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2018\/12\/07\/iihf-overtime-rules-tweaked-for-2019-event\/","title":{"rendered":"IIHF Overtime Rules Tweaked for 2019 Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The IIHF overtime rules will be changing for the upcoming World Championships this May in Slovakia. Hockey\u2019s international organizing body announced the changes on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">SUDDEN DEATH OVERTIME! At the 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IIHFWorlds?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#IIHFWorlds<\/a> in Slovakia, a tied gold medal game would for the first time be decided in sudden death, 3-on-3 overtime, no shootout. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6URm74mdWo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/6URm74mdWo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Picture: the last OT gold medal goal from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kovy__17?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@kovy__17<\/a> in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Photo: M. Manor \/ HHOF-IIHF <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6Lhg86oKmz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/6Lhg86oKmz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; IIHF (@IIHFHockey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IIHFHockey\/status\/1070700168943685634?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 6, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1>IIHF Overtime Rules Undergo Makeover<\/h1>\n<p>Overtime periods <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bardown.com\/the-iihf-world-championships-will-feature-a-new-overtime-format-that-s-sure-to-please-tons-of-hockey-1.1221841\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">will now be decided in a 3-on-3 format<\/a>. Preliminary-round games will five minutes of the new format and then go to a shootout. Knockout-round games including the bronze medal game will have 10 minutes of 3-on-3 and will go to a shootout if still tied.<\/p>\n<p>The gold medal game will have 20 minutes of 3-on-3 hockey. All overtime-games will have the sudden-death format. Officials will review the new format at the end of the tournament. Other tournaments could see the new format if it&#8217;s successful.<\/p>\n<p>IIHF Competition and Coordination Committee Chairman Franz Reindl cited other reasons for the change. Here\u2019s what he said in a statement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iihf.com\/en\/events\/2019\/wm\/news\/8090\/new-ot-format-at-worlds\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on the governing body\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are various reasons we can\u2019t risk a long overtime game in the final. Arena facilities have to turn over quickly, often on the same night as the final, to accommodate new events coming in. There are also concerns from broadcasting and team management that have to be considered as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<h1>What It Means for the Future<\/h1>\n<p>It\u2019s understandable that the IIHF wants to have a definitive winner. Shootouts have produced great memories in international tournaments. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/f\/forsbpe01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Peter Forsberg<\/a>\u2019<\/strong>s goal for Team Sweden in the 1994 gold medal game at the Albertville Olympics comes to mind.<\/p>\n<p>However, there are fans that don\u2019t want to see a skill competition decide a championship. A team can dominate a game but come away with nothing because of the shootout.<\/p>\n<p>There will be some that want the traditional 5-on-5 format to decided knockout games, but it\u2019s understandable why the IIHF wants test out this new system.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2016\/09\/Ryan-OReilly.jpg\" alt=\"\">Canada&#8217;s forward <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/o\/oreilry01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ryan O&#8217;Reilly<\/a> (R) vies with France&#8217;s goalie Ronan Quemener during the group B preliminary round game Canada versus France at the 2016 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship in Saint Petersburg on May 16, 2016. \/ AFP \/ ALEXANDER NEMENOV (Photo credit should read ALEXANDER NEMENOV\/AFP\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The IIHF overtime rules will be changing for the upcoming World Championships this May in Slovakia. Hockey\u2019s international organizing body announced the changes on Thursday morning. SUDDEN DEATH OVERTIME! At the 2019 #IIHFWorlds in Slovakia, a tied gold medal game would for the first time be decided in sudden death, 3-on-3 overtime, no shootout. https:\/\/t.co\/6URm74mdWo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2352,"featured_media":1207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[304,34],"tags":[3830,95,5738,898,2874,2569,955,1684,2316,1683],"class_list":["post-38717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-hockey","category-news","tag-2019-iihf-world-championship","tag-detroit-red-wings","tag-hockey-news","tag-iihf","tag-iihf-world-championship","tag-news","tag-nhl-news","tag-overtime-formats","tag-peter-forsberg","tag-shootouts"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}