When the NHL instituted the shootout in 2005 to decide games instead of ties, it came after the American Hockey League experimented with it the previous season.

It was a new wrinkle in North America, but the shootout had been a big part of international hockey at the Olympics long before that. And it has delivered more memorable moments over the past decade or so.

Peter Forsberg's 1994 golden goal became a stamp in Sweden

While the NHL has kept the shootout contained to the regular season, the International Ice Hockey Federation — like FIFA in soccer — has used it at the Olympics and world championships, even to decide gold medals.

Canada and Sweden got to a shootout in the final of the 1994 Games in Lillehammer, and Peter Forsberg tried a move he recalled countryman Kent Nilsson scori

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