(AP) - 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.

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 scoring with at worlds in '89. He beat Corey Hirsch, Tommy

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