![]() Each team takes three shots (like a penalty shot). If the game is still tied, there will be a shoot-out. After the game ends in regulation with the score knotted up, as before, for a five minute overtime period the teams will play with four skaters aside (instead of the usual five). Ties? GONE!! In the most surprising rule change, ties are completely eliminated.Changes, they are afoot, my hockey friends! We'll be seeing a slightly different kind of game come October, or in September in the preseason for the most rabid of hockey fans. In addition to mass roster changes that we'll see made necessary by the salary cap, new rules will also be showcased. So the NHL is coming back with the regular season slated to begin on Octo(for the first time ever all 30 teams will play their first game on that night). In the afternoon the owners ratified it, effectively ending the ten-month lockout that had wiped out the entire 2004-2005 season which made the NHL be the first major North American sports league to lose an entire season due to a labor dispute. Hockey fans rejoice! The lockout is over! On Friday, July 22, 2005, in the morning the players ratified - almost unanimously - the new Collective Bargaining Agreement.
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