ECA Review 2023-03-09

16 MARCH 9'23 HANNA/CORONATION/STETTLER, AB. WHEEL OF A DEAL
ECA REVIEW
16 MARCH 9'23 HANNA/CORONATION/STETTLER, AB. WHEEL OF A DEAL ECA REVIEW
Raiders compete in
Wetaskiwin
Submitted and 3rd Overall in Elementary Girls
Castor Raider Archery members Myla Geall - 2nd in Grade 5 Girls and
took part in the NASP Archery tournament
hosted by the Wetaskiwin Annabelle Stirling - 4th in Grade 6
2nd Overall in Elementary Girls
Bisons Archery Club Feb. 25 - 26 and of Girls
the 14 Castor Raider Archers who participated,
nine placed in the top five in Olivia Weeks - 3rd in Grade 4 Girls
Lucy Weeks 5th in Grade 6 Girls
their age categories.
and 5th Overall in Elementary Girls
Colter Stirling - 1st in Grade 8 Boys Hannah Dennie - 4th in Grade 5
and 1st Overall in Middle School Boys Girls
Emily Weeks - 1st in Grade 7 Girls Hunter Tauber - 3rd in Grade 4 Boys
Kelsey Stirling - 1st in Grade 4 Girls
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Time to lose the
NHL’s loser point
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AIR HOSE
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BTE 61-3894
by Bruce Penton
It’s time for the National Hockey
League to get rid of the loser point.
While it may help to keep lousy
teams “above .500” and helps to
tighten up the standings so more
teams have a shot at a playoff berth,
the loser point given to a team that
loses a game in either overtime or a
shootout is an abomination.
Fans of the Calgary Flames, for
instance, think their team is performing
decently because it had won
five more games than it had lost in regulation
time.
Twelve other losses, however, came
in overtime or a shootout, and the
Flames benefitted with 12 extra points,
tied with Dallas for most in the league.
Those extra points are loser points.
Or maybe it’s a bonus point.
Supporters of the current system say
that if 60 minutes of hockey winds up a
tie, each team legitimately earns one
point, just like it was in the old days
before the three-point games came
into effect for the 1999-2000 season.
An overtime or shootout win then
awards an additional point.
Let’s examine the Flames situation a
little closer. As of Feb. 26, the Flames
had 27 regulation-time victories and 20
losses. They also had 12 OT or
shootout losses, giving them 63 points
and a third-place standing in the
Western Conference’s wildcard race,
two points out of a playoff spot behind
wild-card leaders Edmonton and
Minnesota.
In essence, though, the Flames had
won 27 games and lost 32 and with a
record like that, coach Darryl Sutter
would be expecting to be fired. But the
standings show the Flames have a .559
winning percentage thanks to their
league-leading loser point total.
The loser-point system is also an
excitement-killer and people who run
the league should be concerned about
that. The last half of third periods of
tie games often turn into kitty-bar-thedoor
snoozefests as teams look
forward to getting at least one point
and then a chance for a second point in
the carnival games they play after 60
minutes.
The NHL is the only professional
sports league with such a system. A
better setup would be to award three
points for a regulation-time win; two
points for an overtime win, one point
for an overtime loss, and zero points
for a 60-minute defeat.
At least that would require teams to
go all out in the dying minutes for a
win in regulation.
Overall, the loser point offers teams
a false sense of success. Fans may be
happy with their team’s 30-26-12
record, but a general manager needs
no reminder that his team has lost
eight more games than it has won.
Loser points are for losers.
SLAP Shots
• British columnist Alan Tyers did not
think much of Full Swing, the Netflix
documentary on professional golf: “(Full
Swing) shanks it horribly off the tee, into
a pond, tries to roll its trousers up and hit
the ball out of the pond, falls over into
the pond … needs rescuing by a frogman,
eventually catches Weil’s Disease and
suffers massive organ failure, and dies,
horribly …”
• Vancouver comedy guy Steve Burgess,
referencing the proliferation of gambling
in the world of sports: “I am guessing
we’re a year or two away from teams being
awarded the Super Bowl only if they
cover the spread.”
• Steve Simmons of Sunmedia: “The CFL
schedule is a mess. Bo Levi Mitchell, the
former Stampeder, doesn’t play in Calgary
this season. Cody Fajardo, the former
Roughrider, does not play in Saskatchewan.
The CFL is a gate-driven business.
This is a lost opportunity.”
• Columnist Rob Vanstone in his farewell
column in the Regina Leader-Post: “Be
assured that dogs are much more popular
than sports columnists. As a bonus, dogs
can be housebroken.”
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