[DrScump]

  There's a large constituency that doesn't like games that end in a tie.

The downside is that teams that feel confident in their penalty shooting play not-to-lose for the last 10 minutes.

It's like using free throws instead of sudden death OT in basketball.

A better solution would be 4-point game scoring. 4 points for a regulation win, 3 for OT win, 2 each for ties, 1 for OT loss. Teams are incented to play hard all the way, and you don't get that mixup of games being 2 or 3 points.

I like rule changes that limit sleaziness, like no change or TV timeouts for icing, no-touch icing, limiting mound visits and batter delays in baseball. Teams like the Dodgers and Astros had turned mound visits into an art form.