What are the overtime rules in professional hockey?
Professional hockey has set overtime rules to ensure that games are decided on the ice and not in a shootout. In the NHL, overtime is played for five minutes in regular season games and for 20 minutes in playoff games. During overtime, teams are allowed to have three skaters on the ice instead of the usual five. If the game is still tied after overtime, then a shootout is used to decide the winner. Overtime rules in other professional hockey leagues may differ from the NHL, but the goal is always the same: to decide the game on the ice.
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