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What are your thoughts on the new 3-on-3 overtime in the NHL?
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Jim Riddell - Seaway Karate Club - The NHL implemented the 3-on-3 overtime format this year in hopes of providing more excitement
and cutting down on the number of shootouts. With so many games going beyond regulation, getting that extra point in OT becomes

very important. Teams with depth will benefit as having a 4th line that can play an additional minute or two will help keep the top line
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players a bit fresher. This format could also impact the way teams build and structure their rosters as speed and having a goalie who
is good at moving the puck are needed components. Teams may initially have to adapt and adjust on the go but the product should be
more entertaining for the fans.

Gilles Gaudet - Sports Enthusiast - The new 3-on-3 format in OT seems to be working well for the NHL this year. Seventy percent

of games are finishing during the 5 minutes of OT compared to forty-four percent last year. That’s a big improvement, and we, the

fans, are the main beneficiaries. Many will remember years ago before OT, NHL visiting teams often played for the tie, and this led to

boring dump and chase hockey that lulled us all to sleep. Now we’re seeing exciting free-wheeling hockey in OT, with a lot of creative
passing, two-on-ones and imaginative individual plays. Any system that provides us with fewer shootouts has to be an improvement.

The shootout format has worn thin and is akin to watching someone flip a coin to decide the outcome of a game. Now if the NHL
wants to really put some excitement back into the game, they’ll increase the dimensions of the nets to compensate for the size of the
goalies and their equipment!

Jake Lapierre - Conditioning Coach - Earlier this year I was skeptical how well the NHL’s new 3-on-3 overtime format would
be accepted, however I’ve come to enjoy the new format for several reasons. The 3-on-3 overtime format in my opinion is a much
superior format than the previous basic shootout, to decide who gets two points and who gets one. Is it the fairest format? No; endless
overtime would be fairest, but who’d go for that in the regular season?
The 3-on-3 format encompasses strategy, athletic endurance, and a little luck. It tests players conditioning, and strategizing smarts;
knowing when to switch before you’re gassed and no longer useful, and recognizing the right opportunity to switch without creating
a mistake or opportunity for the opposing team. Coaching strategy also comes into play because each team loses the ability to keep
shifts down to 35 seconds due to the switch of ends after regulation time; which makes each bench a full zone further away from each
team’s own goal, and therefore makes line changes more hazardous.
In my opinion the new 3-on-3 format elevates players’ athleticism, game conception and coaching strategy. I like it.

RUN to end MS will Champs Eastside Boxing Club

Congratulations to Avery
Include a Full Marathon Gravelle: Fighter of the Month

on April 30th, 2016
Avery Gravelle

past 14 years and the full marathon Avery Gravelle continues to improve
By Staff Writer
will be “a really awesome addition and impress in training and in the ring.
he MS Society, Cornwall & for our event” says Karen Torrie- Avery has the heart, dedication, and tal-
TDistrict Chapter is thrilled Racine, Volunteer Offi ce Manager ent that are every coach’s dream. Fri-
to introduce a full marathon to for the local chapter, also adding, day, November 25, 2015, Avery Gravelle
celebrate our 15th annual Run to fought on a card in Montreal. He won his
“This is one of the first running

endMS! bout against an older, more seasoned op-
events of the season and what a great

ponent. Avery’s opponent had 21 fights
The route has been precisely way to kick it off this spring!!”
under his belt as opposed to Avery’s 7,
and professionally measured by
Last year’s event raised yet Avery out-boxed him securing a win.

a certified course measurer from
approximately $26,000 and we Congratulations again, Avery, on a great
AIMS-Association of International
hope to surpass that figure with our win and on being Champs Eastside Box-

Marathons and Distance Races-
new addition. ing’s boxer of the month.
with the hope that this race becomes Yours in Boxing
a qualifying race for the Boston For further information please Jorge Luis
Marathon. contact:
The proposed route is a run Karen Torrie-Racine, MS Society Unisex Hairstyling
from Chrysler Park Marina to St. of Canada, Cornwall & District
Lawrence College, running east Chapter Proprietor - JORGE LUIS
into the city. Participants will be 613-938-6777 or 1-800-268-7582 1380 Second St., East

bussed from the college first thing ext. 3316 Eastcourt Mall - CORNWALL
in the morning to the start location.
mssociety.cornwall@bellnet.ca Get 10 cuts and your 11th is FREE!
The Run to endMS has included a or ktr1805@hotmail.com 613-933-2632
5K, 10K and half Marathon for the