{"id":505391,"date":"2026-01-10T05:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T05:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/505391\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T05:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T05:03:08","slug":"here-is-a-prime-example-of-why-the-nhl-needs-to-kill-off-the-loser-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/505391\/","title":{"rendered":"Here Is A Prime Example Of Why The NHL Needs To Kill Off The &#8216;Loser Point&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We need the 3-2-1-0 system, ASAP<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>January 9, 2026 4:20 PM EST\u2022<strong>Updated<\/strong>January 9, 2026 3:09 PM EST<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"fb\">Facebook<\/li>\n<li class=\"tw\">Twitter<\/li>\n<li class=\"email\">Email<\/li>\n<li class=\"link\">Copy Link<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">This has been one of the funkier years in recent memory when it comes to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/category\/national-hockey-league\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NHL<\/a> standings at roughly the halfway point of the year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">The Eastern Conference is about as congested as you&#8217;ll ever see it in January, while a handful of teams have scampered off into the distance out west.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">But we&#8217;ve got a problem that needs to be addressed, and it&#8217;s not the first time it has come up: we need to kill off the loser point.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><strong>READ: <\/strong><a class=\"decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/sports\/senators-gm-steve-staios-slams-linus-ullmark-rumors?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>NHL GM SHREDS RUMORS &#8216;TROLLS&#8217; HAVE MADE UP ONLINE ABOUT GOALIE&#8217;S LEAVE OF ABSENCE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">The NHL awards teams a point if they lose a game beyond regulation, so in either overtime or a shootout. That&#8217;s fair, but it occasionally results in what we&#8217;ve got happening in the Pacific Division.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Take a look at the standings before Thursday&#8217;s batch of games.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Notice anything odd?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Perhaps that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/category\/vegas-golden-knights\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vegas Golden Knights<\/a> lead the division despite being tied for the fifth-most wins in it, along with the Kings in fifth place and the Flames way down in seventh?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Yeah, that&#8217;s all thanks to the 12 (12!!!!) games that the Golden Knights have lost beyond regulation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">The NHL really needs to go with the 3-2-1-0 system that other leagues, including the PWHL, use. That awards three points for a regulation win, two points for an overtime\/shootout win, one point for an overtime\/shootout loss, and nothing for a regulation loss.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">This way, you still get a &#8220;loser point&#8221; for dropping a game in OT, but teams are rewarded for winning games in regulation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Adopting this system would shake up the standings and make them more accurate. Vegas is a good team, but losses are losses, and they shouldn&#8217;t be leading a division based on the fact that these losses came beyond regulation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">This has been coming up more in recent years, and hopefully, goofy results like this will get the league to fix this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We need the 3-2-1-0 system, ASAP PublishedJanuary 9, 2026 4:20 PM EST\u2022UpdatedJanuary 9, 2026 3:09 PM EST Facebook&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":505392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[293,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-505391","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115869057464903614","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}