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Dallas Stars Daily Links: A Look at the First Season of 3-on-3 Overtime

So, how do we feel about 3-on-3 OT? Plus, Ales Hemsky helps out at hockey camp, and a look at which players signed shiny new deals.

A season into the NHL's new overtime format, Puck Daddy's Ryan Lambert examines what sort of impact shifting from 4-on-4 to 3-on-3 had on the game.

One number-crunching effort from USA Today showed that in the first three months of last season, only a little more than 1-in-3 overtimes went to a shootout. Once the new year rolled around, that number grew to nearly 1-in-2. You can explain some of that away as variance; sometimes pucks just don't go in despite everyone's best efforts.