This article analyzes the incentive effects of the National Hockey League's overtime-loss rule by offering an …

The National Hockey League (NHL) in 1999-2000 changed its rules for games that are tied at the end of regulation time … that play was too conservative during overtime because teams feared losing the one point already earned. The new rules … called for a team to retain its one point earned for tying in regulation even if it ultimately lost during the overtime. This …

outcomes in a way that is not neutral with respect to payroll. The article finds, for example, that in the NHL over the 1994 …

This article investigates whether general managers in the National Hockey League (NHL) evaluate the playing talent of … agent goalies to ascertain how the goalie position is evaluated by general managers in the NHL. The authors find that … goalie performance are quite small. Furthermore, NHL goalies are quite inconsistent across time. These aspects of goalie …

overtime games against nonconference opponents. We use empirical data across three recent NHL PSs to test if and when teams …In the current National Hockey League (NHL) points system (PS), there are increased incentives for teams to play … proportion of overtime games against nonconference opponents than within-conference ones, and that overtime games are also …