The shootout has been a part of the NHL for two decades since it was implemented in 2005.

The percentage of games decided by the shootout has decreased from 15% at its high point in 2009-10 to a new low of 5.9% last season. The advent of 3-on-3 overtime beginning in 2015, a change from 4 on 4, has gone a long way to reducing the frequency of needing to go to a game-ending shootout. Some things to know about this now well-known feature of the NHL:

First and last

Carolina and Florida skated to a 6-all tie on April 4, 2004. It was the 5,729th and likely last tie in league history since the shootout is almost certainly here to stay.

All 30 teams played on the first day of the 2005-06 season, marking the NHL's return from a lockout that had wiped out the previous year.

The first shootout

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