While the WCHA men's team will continue to have ties this season, its women's counterpart is going to implement the shootout to break ties after overtime, the league announced Thursday. Like the CCHA announced it was going to do earlier this month and like the National Hockey League adopted a few years ago, the WCHA women's league will put in a three-player shootout for all of its regular-season conference games when its games are still tied after overtime.
While the games will still be considered ties by the NCAA tournament selection committee, shootout wins and losses will count in the conference standings.; Teams will get two points for and one point for a shootout loss.
In a press release, the WCHA reiterated that it has "no plans at this time to use the shootout in the men's league."
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