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This is technically not considered the actual official first round of the playoffs. In the event of a penalty, a fourth man would be added onto the ice, and if/when the penalty expires, the player is let out of the box, and the teams continue at four aside until the next whistle.The NHL playoff overtime format does not need to be changed at all. In the 2015-16 season, the NHL adopted a new rule where only three players would skate per team during the overtime period.

But at some point, somebody somewhere was concerned enough to add a line to the rulebook, where it will probably stay forever.Overtime is sudden death in hockey. And then there are the exceptions, loopholes, and special scenarios: paragraph after paragraph of increasingly specific language covering situations that in some cases have never happened. Rules you’d think would be simple can go down a rabbit hole that lasts for multiple pages. Rulebooks are rarely cleaned up, so stuff of indeterminate origin can linger for decades. But fans really should take some time to browse through the rulebook every once in a while, because there’s all sorts of weird stuff in there. Golden Knights Lose Game 6 to Canadiens, 3-2 in OT.And that’s all true enough.

During any stoppage in play before the penalty ends, the team can send somebody over to serve whatever’s left of the penalty.Of course, there’s a slight flaw in that sort of plan, and it’s the reason teams almost never try this particular move: If there isn’t a stoppage, and the power play ends before you can get somebody into the box, you’re pretty much screwed. Rule 20.3 makes it clear that a team “does not have to place a substitute player on the penalty bench immediately” it’s completely legal to keep the entire bench intact by just leaving the box empty when the penalty starts, and leave it that way as long as desired. It’s usually a one-dimensional offensive star who doesn’t kill penalties anyway and can provide a threat to score on a sneaky breakaway once he’s out of the box.But while teams do indeed have to put a player in the box, they don’t actually have to do it right away. Or maybe he was ejected, or injured on the play.In those cases, fans know the drill: The offending player’s team has to send over a player to serve his time for him. Maybe the offending player is a goaltender. If a player can’t serve his own major, his team must put someone in the box to replace him.There are all sorts of situations in which a player might be assessed a major penalty that results in a power play for the other team, but that he can’t actually serve by physically sitting in the penalty box.

If you don’t, it’s an automatic minor, per section 10.3 of the rulebook. If a stick breaks, you have to drop it immediately. A player may not play the puck with a broken stick.The broken-stick rule is one that most fans know well, even though it doesn’t come into play very often. But the rulebook says that you could, and that’s what really counts.2. 1 And to make matters worse, you’re not even technically considered shorthanded anymore, so you can’t ice the puck like you would on a typical penalty kill.So does it make sense to do it? No, not really. You can’t get to even strength by having a guy hop over the boards from the bench — he has to come from the penalty box.

For example, players can hand each other replacement sticks, but it’s a penalty if anyone “throws, tosses, slides or shoots” one. 2Both sections on broken sticks are worth a quick read, because they’re filled with weird exceptions and clarifications that most fans have probably wondered about at some point. Goalies don’t have to drop a broken stick, per Rule 10.4. Two of them, in fact, one for each team: the two goaltenders.

I can’t believe Ilya Bryzgalov never tried that.3. Hell, we should encourage it. A player who has a stick thrown to him from the bench doesn’t get a penalty the thrower does instead.And my favorite random detail: While play is still going on, a “goalkeeper whose stick is broken or illegal may not go to the players’ bench for a replacement but must receive his stick from a teammate.” I’m sorry, but if a goalie wants to sprint to the bench and grab a replacement stick on the fly, I think we should let him.

Part of the confusion is that “the trapezoid” itself isn’t the area the rule covers — it’s the safe zone, where goalies can still handle the puck as normal. The only thing less entertaining than watching one team execute a dump-and-chase is to see the other team’s goalie retrieve the puck and dump it right back out before the “chase” part can even happen.And so the trapezoid was born, establishing an area in which the goalie isn’t allowed to touch the puck. If you’ve been around long enough to remember the days when goalies like Martin Brodeur got so good at stickhandling that they were viewed as a third defenseman, you can understand what the league was going for. Veteran fans are just annoyed, viewing it as an eyesore that has little impact on the game and has come to represent the sort of minor tinkering the league seems to love to engage in every year.But the trapezoid does serve a purpose: It’s meant to limit the goaltender’s ability to play the puck. New fans are often confused by it.

A regular-season game that remains tied after overtime is followed by a shootout.Certain things are inevitable in the NHL. You couldn’t actually handle the puck, Brodeur-style, but you could certainly reach it with your stick and settle it down for an oncoming defenseman.So let’s take bets: Who’ll be the first goaltender to start regularly exploiting this loophole? And how badly will fans freak out the first time it happens because they’re convinced the referees are letting an obvious penalty go uncalled?4. But it certainly could — it’s 7 feet from the edge of the crease to the end of the trapezoid, which isn’t much considering how big today’s goalies are. There’s a little-known loophole, as laid out in Rule 63.2: “The minor penalty will not be assessed when a goalkeeper plays the puck while maintaining skate contact with his goal crease.”I have no idea why the league would feel the need to add this particular exception, and if the rule has ever actually come into play, I’m not aware of it. 3 Those are the areas where any contact between the goalie and the puck leads to an automatic penalty for delay of game.Except when it doesn’t.

It never will, but it could. Either way, it could happen. “If a team declines to participate in the shootout procedure, the game will be declared as a shootout loss for that Team.” You just lose automatically.So why would any team ever decline? Principle, dammit! Or maybe because the coach got pissy about something or other and decided that the whole team needed to go sulk in the dressing room.

Empty-net goals negate the loser point. It also isn’t, despite what most fans think, automatic.We’ve covered this one before, but there’s a rare exception to the loser point, and it’s laid out in Rule 84.2: The losing team doesn’t get its point if the winning goal is scored after the team pulls its goalie for an extra attacker in overtime. It’s one of the worst rules in all of pro sports, an embarrassment that encourages boring defensive hockey, distorts the standings, and makes the NHL look like a children’s rec league that gives trophies just for trying hard. A team that loses in overtime is awarded a single point.Ah, the loser point.