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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 4216120, member: 289"]
So baseball is bringing back the 'free' runner' for extra innings to speed up games. I sort of got used to it when they used it two years ago, much like getting used to the DH or granting intentional walks instead of throwing them.

I've always wondered, though, if the NHL doesn't have it right. Send everyone home on time and grant two points for a win and one for a tie, leaving overtime to the post season.  My problem is that I've never really been a hockey fan. I thought I would become one after Lake Placid but I started watching NHL games and it didn't seem like the same sport I saw in the Olympics, (more about checking into the boards and brawls than skating, passing and shooting, although I'm told it's improved since then). So I don't what it's like to watch a tie game and go home with your teams point as a result. I remember football ties, which were always frustrating and I've seen plenty of great basketball overtimes and a few great baseball extra inning games. So I have to ask our hockey fans: how do you feel when you watch a tie game and your team gets a point for it? Do you prefer to play each contest to a solution or is that point enough to justify your time?
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