Pension Plan Puppets · May 2, 2017
Triple hockey overtime: glamorous, annoying, exhausting
Christian Bonin - TSGPhoto.comOvertime playoff hockey is glamorous. It’s the peak performance moment of the sport. If you were to write a screenplay for a Hollywood film about a professional hockey team, it would end with a game that went to sudden death overtime in a playoff clinching game. It’s sexy.
It’s also annoying.
When you go to a game, the possibility of one overtime is always in the back of your mind. Two overtimes is an exotic proposition; something special and rare. Three overtime periods is actually kind of obnoxious. “Can’t someone just score already? I’ve been here for hours. End this game!”