Despite the best efforts of the referees tonight, the Rangers beat Buffalo in the infamous 3-point game.
Now, I don't mind giving the bonus point to Buffalo, because the Rangers got the deuce, but I'm sure Philadelphia fans, Islander fans (like my counterpart with the Islanders namesake, Bryan), and Bruin fans all care about it.
Imagine the voting for the Oscars are going on. Someone loves the overrated Juno, but they also think the No Country for Old Men was excellent. So they vote once for Juno but then they also give a half of a vote to No Country. Meanwhile, Michael Clayton is running strong and is only trailing No Country by a few votes for first place. How is Michael Clayton supposed to feel knowing that when someone likes his movie, he only gets one vote, but when a member of The Academy is undecided, he or she can give an extra half-vote to the team ahead of them.
Get it?
I think a win in regulation should be worth 3 points, a shootout or overtime win worth 2 points, a loss in those two situations worth 1, and a regulation loss worth nothing.
The only drawback would be that if a team is up 2-0 or 3-1 with 10 minutes left in the 3rd, the Trap would make its return (although don't be fooled, teams playing in Newark and one of the Twin Cities still use this method). That is why this scoring method wasn't - and will probably never be - brought into use after the Lockout.
But isn't it very infuriating when an exciting game is tied 4-4 with 9 minutes left in regulation, and the action stops? No team wants to take a chance until they get their guaranteed Christmas bonus point.
Anyway, just my thoughts for today. I'm happy with the system as it is if the Trap never comes back as prominently as it was in the Dark Days of the NHL, aka June 2004 and before.
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