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Completely random question but does anyone know how the tv timeout rules work in hockey? I know there are 3 per period, first whistle that isn’t a goal, icing or a whistle during a power play under 14, under 10 and under 6.

However what happens when you get under 10 and haven’t had a commercial break yet like just happened in this third? They took their first commercial break and then came back from the break and got a whistle rather quickly on a goalie coverup but didn’t take another break. What are the rules when that happens?
ok now that the game is over does anyone know the answer to this?
 

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Won the first face-off and proceeded to treat the puck like a live grenade.
They are not able to maintain possession in OT. Not sure what it is but when they are able to win it is generally on turnovers and odd man rushes. For the most part the other team dominates possession in OT
 

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"Great game boys, we're in the playoffs! Now let's give up a goal quick and get the hell outta here."

-Coach Cass, probably
 
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Maybe it was. I thought it was a righty.
Nah it was definitely a lefty, he was trying to feed it down to Nash. I thought he should have gone cross ice to Marchand or dumped it hard around.

Once Schwartz gets that much open ice and speed, not much you can do.
 

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They are not able to maintain possession in OT. Not sure what it is but when they are able to win it is generally on turnovers and odd man rushes. For the most part the other team dominates possession in OT
That’s the nature of 3 on 3. Odd man rushes and turnovers. Shooting the puck means conceding an odd man rush the other way unless the shot goes in.
 

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That’s the nature of 3 on 3. Odd man rushes and turnovers. Shooting the puck means conceding an odd man rush the other way unless the shot goes in.
This is true, but I’ve seen other teams get shots off and scoring chances and still get possession back. Too many times the bruins get hemmed in their own zone and are unable to change lines and become exhausted. They don’t seem to do that very often the other way. Whatever though, for the most part I could care less about that because it won’t matter in the payoffs and they may be the best 5 on 5 team in the nhl
 

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ok now that the game is over does anyone know the answer to this?
Wikipedia:

Commercial time-outs are taken after 4-minute intervals at the 14:00, 10:00 and 6:00 marks in each period when both teams are at even strength. However, there are no commercial time-outs after a goal, after an icing, during a power-play, during the last 30 seconds of the first and second period or last two minutes of the third period. Also, there must be at least one minute of play between commercial time-outs and an effort must be done to identify the situations where a video review might happen in order to NOT go into a commercial time-out. [9] Additionally there are no timeouts, commercial or team, granted during a shootout. Due to these restrictions, it is possible that not all of the scheduled breaks are taken, in which case sometimes a network will take a timeout at the conclusion of the game to make up for it before signing off on the broadcast.
 

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Wikipedia:

Commercial time-outs are taken after 4-minute intervals at the 14:00, 10:00 and 6:00 marks in each period when both teams are at even strength. However, there are no commercial time-outs after a goal, after an icing, during a power-play, during the last 30 seconds of the first and second period or last two minutes of the third period. Also, there must be at least one minute of play between commercial time-outs and an effort must be done to identify the situations where a video review might happen in order to NOT go into a commercial time-out. [9] Additionally there are no timeouts, commercial or team, granted during a shootout. Due to these restrictions, it is possible that not all of the scheduled breaks are taken, in which case sometimes a network will take a timeout at the conclusion of the game to make up for it before signing off on the broadcast.
Ahhh perfect. So there has to be a minute of gameplay between timeouts. That makes sense, thanks bud!
 

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Playoff bound and cup bound baby. This teaM is giving me the same feeling I had in 2011
I hear that. I'll even go one further—health aside*, that team needed a lot more to go right than this team will to reach the promised land. Those guys had to grind hard, to the point that most of us didn't think there was enough top end talent to get the job done. The top line could disappear for stretches, they were bad on the power play and were eternally in need of puck-moving defensemen—it is insane to look at the roster now and remember how bad that specific problem was back then, and Kaberle didn't really fix it—and they played that entire playoffs on a knife's edge besides the Philly series.

There are definite similarities in toughness, the ability to roll lines, good coaching, great goaltending, etc. It makes a huge difference that the 2011 top line was a group that could look unstoppable at times and useless at others, whereas the current top line is legitimately the best all-around line in the league, and doesn't take any shifts off.

*I don't mean to trivialize health. They will need everybody to beat the Leafs and the officials.