Just a little hypothetical for everyone.

Hello everyone, I'm a new fan of hockey and I joined the reddit to learn more about the game and see if anyone can answer my question since nowhere else on the internet has seemed to have an answer.

I am a Stars fan and the end of this game 3 against the Blues is the perfect scenario for my question. If you didn't watch what happened the Blues were up 4-3 with less than a minute to go in the game. The Blues then commit a delay of game penalty to give the Stars a 6 on 4 advantage since they pulled Bishop and now there is 43 seconds left. So it's a 6 on 4 powerplay for the Stars and they're losing 3-4 with 43 seconds to go.

This is my question: Why don't losing teams who have a penalty committed against them get to play out the rest of that penalty before regulation ends? I feel like the winning team could essentially ruin a really good play by the losing team and create a penalty thus putting teams back in the faceoff and everyone having to reset (albeit one man now gone for the winning team). Now I know penalties that happen just before the end of the 1st and 2nd period will continue into the next period. But why don't the Stars get to play out that extra 1:20 or so because of the penalty?

Obviously I feel this regulation-extending rule should only apply to the winning team that commits a penalty . I don't think this rule should apply both ways as the losing team could potentially keep committing penalties to keep the game going. And if the Stars had been losing by 2 the rule serves no purpose in existing as well because if the Stars scored on the powerplay the game would've ended right when they scored and they still would've lost by 1.

So to you major hockey fans, is this something that would make a difference in the game? Is this a good idea to implement and try? Or is this something that, in the grand scheme of things, would most likely create little-to-no change to the outcome? I know obviously teams aren't trying to intentionally commit penalties (at least I think not) when they're winning but I know penalties will happen for whatever reason and I feel its a little unfair to those teams to not be able to fully play out the entirety of their power play because of regulation time.

Please let me know what you all think and ask questions if you're still unsure of exactly what I'm asking. I'm still very new to the game of hockey so please let me know if this has already been a question debated before and thrown out for an obvious reason I'm unaware of. I've spent a really long time looking for an answer and haven't found much of anything to explain why they wouldn't extend the game past regulation for a penalty.

Seems pretty obvious the league has given refs a mandate to not call the first few that happen. But then arbitrarily call the third or fourth one. Watch any game and you’ll see dozens of them never called. Any battle in front of the net or in the corners has multiple instances of crosschecking as is written in the rule book. Why is this so widely accepted? And they hurt. BADLY. Anybody who has even played beer league with some Tommy Try Hard who gets frustrated and gives you one in the lower back can attest to them affecting you the rest of the game. Granted, these guys are tougher than I, but it can’t have absolutely zero impact over the course of a season.

They move on to play the top-seeded Chicago Wolves in the second round. This is the Iowa Wild's first playoff berth since relocating from Houston in the 2013-14 season.

I remember toews saying almost haltingly, wondering if ir was a good idea to to that.

Asking because toronto seemes to have steered themselves onto the same road

Compiling some data on the 2019 season and found this one interesting. This is the list of the top 10 most fouled players in the league with the number of penalties committed against them

1. Nathan MacKinnon - 47
2. Johnny Gaudreau - 41
3. Jeff Skinner - 40
4. Brad Marchand - 36
5. Timo Meier - 36
6. Jason Zucker - 35
7. Matthew Tkachuk - 35
8. Aleksander Barkov - 35
9. Connor McDavid - 34
10. Elias Pettersson - 33

3-2 final score.

Guelph came back from 0-3 down against London in round 2 and then they pull this in the next round!

The streams this postseason are becoming less and less watchable for me. I've checked it on all my devices, and something must be wrong with their servers. Which doesn't make sense, because of the blackouts, not many people streaming all this national broadcast games.

I don't have issues watching the game replays. I'm having issues for the live games.

Folks like Stone and Silfverberg are guys I would look at. Ideally a player that can add 40 to 50 points, but own his role on the PK and help keep pucks out of nets.

Edit: i understand Stone and Silfverberg have resigned. These were, IMO, the two best 2ways had they not re-signed. I'm curious who is available.

Is there a sub for that, or should I go look on like... HF?

Side question, was he a dirty player like matt cooke?