In order to avoid too many tied games after playing the five-minute overtime period, the National Hockey League … introduced two rule changes in the 1999-2000 season. First, a team that loses in overtime receives one point instead of zero … points. Second, the number of skaters in overtime is reduced from five to four. The theoretical literature analyzing these …

Using data from 2005 to 2016, this paper examines if players in the National Hockey League (NHL) are being paid a … with the existing literature, we use lagged performance statistics and dummy variables to control for the type of NHL … of NHL player salaries. …

We analyze the performance outcomes of National Hockey League (NHL) players over 18 seasons (1990-1991 to 2007-2008) as … more likely to make it into the NHL, but display significantly lower performance across all birth cohorts than later … calendar births. In short, those in the top echelon of NHL achievement are drawn from fatter cohorts and later relative age …

We analyze the performance outcomes of National Hockey League (NHL) players over 18 seasons (1990-1991 to 2007-2008) as … more likely to make it into the NHL, but display significantly lower performance across all birth cohorts than later … calendar births. In short, those in the top echelon of NHL achievement are drawn from fatter cohorts and later relative age …