Meanwhile, current NHL overtime rules have added excitement to the game. Once upon a time, you were looking at 5-on-5 overtime periods during the regular season. The league first started by reducing the player count to 4-on-4 and finally settled on 3-on-3. As a reminder, these numbers exclude the goalies. Before the 2015-16 season, the NHL adopted a 3-on-3 overtime system. This format was already in use by the AHL and ECHL when the NHL opted to switch it up from 4-on-4. The key features of NHL overtime rules NHL overtime rules for preseason and regular season. Teams play a five-minute overtime period of 3-on-3 hockey The NCAA hockey overtime rule is to play an overtime period of 5 minutes under the sudden-death policy. NCAA hockey rules are close to the NHL rulebook. The big 10 key differences between NCCA rules over the NHL are outlined here. 1. Overtimes and tie games: Regular-season overtime periods are of five minutes. A sudden death policy is followed The Rules Governing Overtime in a Hockey Game. In addition to creating an unpredictability factor, overtime has different rules than regulation hockey. For instance, all NHL overtime periods are played 3-on-3 instead of the usual 5-on-5 setup. This creates more open ice while players must contend with fewer opponents. Find live NHL scores, NHL player & team news, NHL videos, rumors, stats, standings, team schedules & fantasy games on FOX Sports. In regulation the two teams collectively average 37.5 shot attempts per 20 minutes, peaking in the first and second periods before tightening up in the third. Overtime is a different story — the Live scores for every 2023-24 NHL season game on ESPN. Includes box scores, video highlights, play breakdowns and updated odds. NHL playoff overtime is played at 5-on-5. The 3-on-3 overtime that is used in the regular season is just for the regular season. There is no way that the importance of an NHL overtime would be decided by a different style of play than what has got them to that point during the rest of the game. Therefore, all the rules of overtime stay exactly 4. Five overtimes (90 minutes, 27 seconds of overtime) in the 2020 first round. Tampa Bay 3, Columbus 2. Brayden Point scored the winner. 5 - Five overtimes (80 minutes, 48 seconds of overtime) in 228. Welcome back to Rules Court, where you submit your ideas for NHL rule changes and three of us (Sean McIndoe, Ian Mendes and Sean Gentille ) vote on them. Everything is up for discussion khk2qNH.