How Many Columns Would You Like With Those Standings?
I could’ve sworn most sports sites started this NHL season showing W-L-OTL-SOL for win, loss, overtime loss and shootout loss. While there’s no difference between OTL and SOL in terms of points earned, there’s still a difference in how the game ended. The NHL however just lists OT, for overtime, and it combines OTL and SOL. It seems as though most sites have taken the NHL’s lead in combining the columns into an OT column (some still refer to it as OTL though). Outside of the NHL standings I list on hockeyfights.com, the only other site I could find that still separates the outcomes is USA Today. I happen to like seeing the extra column, knowing how a game ended, but the NHL has long been criticized for having too many columns in their standings system, so I understand their want for simplicity.
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