You may recall that the NHL was toying around with the idea of ditching the dry scrape between the third period and overtime. The belief has been that the dry scrape takes too long and fans have grown impatient over a delay which results in a negligible benefit. The league has had some time to discuss the dry scrape and the verdict is in – the scrape has been scrapped beginning on Saturday, November 22nd.
REMINDER: Effective today, the ‘dry scrape’ of the ice surface prior to the start of overtime will be eliminated. pic.twitter.com/lCUy0uGyrd
— NHL Public Relations (@PR_NHL) November 22, 2014
That was fast. Usually decisions like these are discussed over the summer, but the NHL believed that the annoyance was great enough to make a ruling during the season. Of course, it’s comical that the NHL would make such a quick change on a relatively minor complaint/inconvenience yet they still haven’t addressed some of the actual elephants in the room such as the shootout, trapezoid, intent blow and so on.
