Well, in round-robin competitions, they have a schedule to comply with, figure-skating, etc. so they have to do something like that in the preliminary rounds. I don't know but if I had to have to guess, the medal round games are played until there's a legitimate goal.
Nope. At Nagano, Hayek stonewalled the Canadians in the shootout to decide the semis
Orangeyes said:It was called off because the goal had come off the post on the previous save. As I understand it, in the NHL it's a goal, not so in International Hockey.